Caitlin Hackett | Griffin Spirits

Ink and Acrylic on paper Framed and ready to hang Caitlin Hackett’s passion for the natural world has inspired her art since she first put pencil to paper as child. Hackett grew up on the northern coast of California, between the cold Pacific ocean and the redwood forests. It was there that her love for nature and wilderness flourished. As she has grown Caitlin has combined her love for animals with an interest in both wildlife biology and mythology, to create artwork that speaks to the current biological mythos that constructs the barrier between what is considered ‘human’, and what is considered ‘animal’. Mirroring ancient myths of transformation, often in grotesque ways, we find in contemporary times that animals are being transformed biologically due to interactions with human pollutants; there are frogs with triplicate legs and blind eyes, cows with shriveled sets of legs growing out of their backs, two faced piglets being born on factory farms and radioactive fish rotting from t