The Peaceable Kingdom

The Peaceable Kingdom is a dreamscape of domestic and wild animals inhabiting architecture. The title comes from Edward Hicks, the Quaker minister and painter who made 62 versions of the peaceful coexistence of predator and prey.

Devoid of humans, the video depicts animals moving naturally through human settings — convincingly real yet unmistakably digital, a kind of animal deepfake ontology. In a sense these creatures are totems, spiritual kin.

The work takes cues from David Lynch's surreal interiors and animal shorts (Rabbits, What Did Jack Do?) and from Ildikó Enyedi's On Body and Soul, in which two strangers at an abattoir discover they share a recurring dream of two deer in a winter forest.