May 10, 2025​​​​​​​

While humans walk the physical-plane, nauts walk the aminal-plane.

The Flāv™ Corporation, the largest supplier of artificial happiness on the aminal-plane, has been my employer ever since I first discovered this paralleled reality six years ago. My assigned corporate duties revolve around optimizing the harvesting, synthesizing, and distribution of Flāv™ concentrate drained from out of living organisms and placed into the hands of the other nauts on the aminal-plane for their consumption. Recently, however, I have become a rather rebellious employee. When I am able to get away from the job site, I use my artmaking practice to escape the restraining grasp of the corporation’s systemic control and bridge the events unfolding on the aminal-plane with those happening on the physical-plane. I walk and crawl barefoot through the dirt blanketing my studio floor: drawing, sculpting, and playing with the dirt, sticks, clay, grass, rocks, pigment, moss, and a variety of found artificial materials that have been both manufactured and discarded by Flāv™ Corp. My improvisational creations function as closed portals that signal the aminal-plane’s existence. It is the viewer who may decide to open them.

- Jack

Jack Catlett is a visual artist from Louisville, KY, and currently practices in New York, NY. Catlett’s work explores our relationship with the universe through the lens of a paralleled esoteric reality he has named the aminal-plane. His works are fragmentations of the aminal-plane that have been brought into our own reality through sculpture, drawing, installation, painting, and animation.