Create-An-Animal

'Create-an-Animal, a genre-blending visual essay’ was published in Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry in 2022. The essay documents Zoë's research into the ways the fictional bio-engineered creatures in Margaret Atwood’s Maddaddam trilogy relate to real world bioengineering experiments. Juxtaposing Atwood’s fiction with real world scientific reporting and quasi-scientific specimen charts provides an additional ‘threshold for interpretation’ of both Atwood’s fiction and the complex ethical situations that bioengineering create. Selected spreads below: