Photograph by Ming Jin
While humans walk the physical-plane, nauts walk the aminal-plane.
Jack Catlett (b. 2000) is a visual artist from Louisville, KY, and currently practices in New York, NY. Catlett's work explores our relationship with the natural universe through the lens of a paralleled reality he calls the aminal-plane. He works with both found and purchased materials from the aminal-plane: plants, dirt, and sticks, in contrast with consumer goods, construction materials, and artificial intelligence. The latter are supplied by the Flāv Corporation, the largest single-entity on the aminal-plane. Catlett himself is an employee of the Flāv Corp, and finds himself entangled between the chaotic yet beautiful sublime force of Nature and his powerful employer that uses paradoxical and appropriated facades of propaganda to control and unify it. Through the complex relationship between these coexisting entities on the aminal-plane, Catlett questions the true definition of Nature in our own human-centric reality through sculpture, installation, drawing, painting, and animation.
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