Soft Stories

Inspired by a conversation about “Furries” — a subculture interested in anthropomorphic animal characters with human personalities and characteristics — this work began to take shape. Petelko recognized a strange paradigm, one that connects rather than separates, something elemental. She identified a need for intimacy in a technological world; a collective longing to commune with nature at a time of environmental crisis, and for Petelko, it became important to create tangible yet anonymous characters.