Kai Crockett
MHS, BS, BA

I am an artist and researcher studying how art and the environment can influence our health and wellbeing. I use what I learn about psychology, art, biology and many other fields of science and practice to make art that can be used to help people engage with their digital, physical or social environments. The world can be quite complicated and incomprehensible without the tools, experience and language provided by art and science to explain it. With an art-driven approach, starting by exploring illustration, stories, poetry, and other forms of media I plan to provide emotional anchors and simple practical steps to engage people with subjects across the sciences.

At this time, this website consists of a collection of observations of the natural and social world that have been and can be researched, translated, and illustrated into narratives, posters, interactive projects, and tools for artistic and environmental research. These projects are an exploration into how the human brain collects information and makes conclusions about the nature of their world from subjective lenses. The themes, emotional messaging, and subject matter that populate these comics prompt questions about how our worldviews and our experience of our environment influence our feelings, beliefs, and behaviors.

The goal of my art practice is to illuminate the environment in people’s every day lives. Using works saturated with imagery and conceptual elaborations that play into people’s preexisting preferences for works of pop culture to incorporate for new ways to think about and connect with the social and eco-systems that they experience every day. I play with action, drama, and comedy to create fast-paced and emotional content that packs a sciency punch.

Planet A: Brushfire

Illustrated Futures Ecologies

You will see this work all over this website, as it is a massive world of stories and my main project I am working on. The Brushfire Anthology is a comic book series set in a climate-conscious future where people must live with awareness of and in service of their environment, as the changes are more significant than we could have imagined. I explore how human culture responds to the natural environment and how nature responds to us. 

 

"The relationships between you and me, are like a tree, always changing and growing...

but always in one spot." 

The Archive

Art and Media across Mediums

Throughout my life I have always made and consumed art in many forms. The Archive contains artwork from my earliest years of artmaking with reflections from today, in the form of poems, essays, illustrations, paintings, video, photography, and even sculpture. As a mixed media artist, I work with both digital and physical materials and love to explore meaning and form in incongruous ways.  The Archive allows me to reflect and explain my work to people who may be less familiar with the illustrious and fanciful parts of art, philosophy, psychology and science by bringing concepts from these fields to life. 

 "Is there any unspoken unthought definition of all that is out there?


Am I in charge?

Just when I’m getting around the bend.

I hope I know.


I know that olives are good." 

– From “Olives” a poem about fantasy and truth.

The Digital Desert

A Long and Quiet Journey

With the internet and social media often a chaotic and hectic place. I wanted to make a part of the digital world that was mostly empty space. I am in the process of creating a browser compatible “game”, called The Digital Desert. It’s buried somewhere in this website, let me know if you find it!

"Love is home, history is here, and feelings are real.”

Learn More…

This website is a work in progress. I am constantly making new artworks and uploading them,  Check out the archive or featured works on the menu bar or read more about the process and get involved below!