For her new series, debuting this Friday at Arch Enemy Arts
in Philadelphia, Caitlin Hackett expands on the recurring themes in her
art, which has often featured endangered species, extinction,
pollution, mutation, death, and the fragile relationship between humans
and animals. Titled, “For Your Bones We Wait”, named after the a chapel
of bones in Portugal called Capella Dos Ossos which inspired her,
Hackett’s works use ambigrams to explore “the dichotomy of life and
death”.
All of her pieces feature images that can be read in more than one
direction, where the image reveals a new message or meaning when upside
down or turn over to form an entirely new image. “Overall these new
pieces are about being haunted. It’s a study of ghosts, and ghosts yet
to be, capturing a feeling of the fragility and brevity of life, and a
sense of loss,” she explains in her show statement.
“My work alludes to the boundaries that separate humans from animals
both physically and metaphysically, and the way in which these
boundaries are warped by science, mythology, and religion alike. Like
the gods of so many myths Humanity has warped the world into our own
image, and it is this often frightening image I hope to reflect in my
work.”
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