Unveiling the Wild Within: How Amie Souza Reilly Redefines Our Connection to Animals in ‘Human/Animal’

Often in artist and writerly circles, the phrase “x as y” is used as a gesture towards metaphor. And in Human/Animal, Reilly takes her suburban home life and neighborly interactions as variables “x” to lift up against a multitude of abstract variables “y”. These variables are interchanged multiple times in each essay, to highlight the porousness of humanity versus ferality, nature versus nurture, vulnerability versus violence. Another layer of complexity is added in Reilly’s desire to highlight verbs with an etymological root in the animal world: to slug, to badger, to leech, to wolf, and more.

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