When one thinks of roadkill, they often think of a poor animal lying on it’s side, off to the side of the road, stiff with rigor mortis as it is driven by in the flash of an eye. As the passerby scrunches up their eyes squeamishly, they care not to think of it any longer.  One does not think of it as a symbol of artistic creation, however artist and painter Cara DeAngelis will change your mind.

We had the pleasure of chatting with Cara and learn how our relationship with wild life is quite disconnected and what it represents to us, both in the past and in the present, which she articulates through her paintings.