Kat Lyons's surreal, soulful portraits of livestock will make you reconsider your relationship to animals:
, a pig spurts milk from turgid teats. On farms, Lyons explained, some healthy sows escape slaughter in order to reproduce. It’s a common eco-capitalist catch-22: They get to live, but their bodies are nevertheless used and abused.“I’m interested in how we relate to animals as both physical and symbolic capital and how those relationships shape their world,” Lyons said.
Up to that point, her life had been largely suburban and urban: childhood in Louisville, college at the Kansas City Art Institute and Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. Eventually, she found it again—first at the prestigious Skowhegan residency program in Maine, and then at the farm in Connecticut. “It was stupidly magical,” she said of the latter experience, recalling the friendships she forged with the farmers and animals that called the land home.
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