Cara Cole is a contemporary Canadian artist and writer whose work stresses the transitory nature of life. Flesh and blood is often her subject matter. In The Sky Above; The Mud Below Cole photographs dead animals that she has vivisected: "This internal landscape is one of fearsome poetry." In Lurid Cole explores explores how sexual and religious transportment echo each other. How Ecstasy, that elevated sensation of bliss, is simultaneously carnal and spiritual.