Dreaming Animals is live! The exhibition blurb, for your delectation: Dreaming Animals is an award-winning collaboration between photographer Meredith Miller and poet MJ Millington, exploring the complex relationship between humans and animals. Playing with words and images, each artist uses her own medium to explore the disjuncture between how we think and speak about animals, and how we behave towards them. Inspired by animal-themed children’s games, Miller prints images of endangered animals from the Beinecke Library’s digital collections and re-photographs them in playful scenes she creates with household objects. Millington then writes a poem to pair with each image, playing with common linguistic tropes, phrases, and clichés about animals to recast the stories found in well-worn expressions.
On exhibit at Yale Health through August 2022, before travelling to other venues…