Thus it is no surprise that contemporary artists would adopt mutant or hybrid animals as mascots of a sort, to address a wide range of subjects, starting with man’s conflicted relationship to nature. One can’t help but be struck by the sheer range of artwork featuring such misfit organisms. From paintings that reference—and satirize—staid genres from art history to work that emulates fantastical or lowbrow tropes, young artists are employing mutant animals as unwitting spokescreatures for their own projected observations of society, nature, and the world around them: a world that has come to seem increasingly off-kilter.

@ art ltd (via Animal Inventory)