"Generational Jackalopes #1" serves as a powerful metaphor for the intergenerational experience of medical trauma and healing. By rendering the mythical jackalope with a tender, raw vulnerability, the artist captures a painful yet beautiful moment of recognition.
When the young jackalope looks upon the parent, it witnesses a path it will never fully walk. In her own experience, the artist, Kristin Schiff, has seen her mother left untreated for an auto-immune disease for 33 years. They were both diagnosed in 2023 after the artist spent 7 years advocating in the medical system for that help. She chose a Jackalope as the symbol for auto-immune because they both experience this chronic condition in hidden or non-apparent ways that over time become visible. Choosing a mythical creature/cryptid is meant to connect hidden or non-apparent disability into something that can be seen, but is often treated as mythical by the medical community.
"Generational Jackalopes #1" serves as a powerful metaphor for the intergenerational experience of medical trauma and healing. By rendering the mythical jackalope with a tender, raw vulnerability, the artist captures a painful yet beautiful moment of recognition.
When the young jackalope looks upon the parent, it witnesses a path it will never fully walk. In her own experience, the artist, Kristin Schiff, has seen her mother left untreated for an auto-immune disease for 33 years. They were both diagnosed in 2023 after the artist spent 7 years advocating in the medical system for that help. She chose a Jackalope as the symbol for auto-immune because they both experience this chronic condition in hidden or non-apparent ways that over time become visible. Choosing a mythical creature/cryptid is meant to connect hidden or non-apparent disability into something that can be seen, but is often treated as mythical by the medical community.
