kskelley@lsu.edu
	Artist Statement          Through personal and universal icons my work explores multiple states of reality. Symbolic figures, animals, and objects appear in narratives, which explore humankind’s connections, disconnections and impact upon the animal world. We love some animals and sweetly distort them in books to entertain and teach our children lessons. We also grow animals in inhumane conditions, slaughter them and cause their extinction. I appropriate images of animals from popular culture, taxidermy and hunting catalogs, natural history illustrations and other diverse sources to conjure images that reflect on this human and animal link.