June 11, 2007
Another animal post, but not much about the squee (for which some may be grateful). Taxidermy with a difference. (Some parts of site are sort of icky and possibly NSFW -- especially the "Sculpture" section.)
UN-squee! UN-squee!
IM IN UR CAT, ATTACHIN 2 HEDS
I CAN HAS BICEPHALISM?
EEUQS
Creepy and grotesque. The artist would stuff nicely, though.
I won't look. Where are my lolcats?
Definitely not going to click on any of her "expand your horizons" links. My horizons don't need expansion in that direction.
<has case of the willies>
"I call it art, you can call it whatever you want"
Mh. I'll call it "You can come to play with my dead pigeons anytime, lady" *cough*
Her significant sleeps lightly, I bet.
Totally worth the risk, though. Crazy art girls, yes please.
I was going to say something about kitfisto's new mode of art, but thought I'd best refrain.
Don't diss the mode, adminkraken, or your tentacles will turn into hoodies of unbearable stench.
A tribute to Roky Erickson.
Have just been catching up with Catharsis. Includes Baxter the squirrel who ends up furless. Considerably more squee than the shaved kitten in a jar.
Still, I might be tempted to give her a call if a certain squirrel tries to take over my window boxes again. My window boxes. With my herb plants. Not his nut storage unit. He's been warned. I'm sure he reads MonkeyFilter.
If this girl had checked into the Bates Motel the day before Janet Leigh, Janet would have lived. 'Cause this is Norman's dream girl.
Cat paw key chains? Squeewwwwww!!!
Mmkay, at the risk of being labeled the weird and crazy one round here, I've been a big fan of her stuff for years, and I totally want a winged kitten! Some of the work is more ick than squee even for my taste, but I find a lot of it very beautiful. Nice link, tracicle!
PS I'm actually neither weird nor crazy, I love (live) animals, I wear colours other than black, I hate horror films, I hate gore, I just happen to like creative bizarre taxidermy...
Growing up in Montana, my best friend's dad was a taxidermist. Always smelled faintly of formaldehyde at his house, but the animals were really interesting.
As a college teaching assistant I was involved with a comparative vertebrate anatomy course for 6 years. We dissected a bunch of cats. All ended up in the incinerator, but most of them looked pretty much like her sculptures at the end of the course. We did have a weird penchant for skinning the heads... if done correctly we ended up with an animal that looked less like a cat (helpful for some of the students that identified too strongly with the animals - when it looks like a weird alien, you don't feel the same connection) and we also ended up with a grotesque "hand puppet" made of cat head skin. When dissecting something that looks like your best friend at home, a little levity helps break the tension, even if it is a bit disturbing.
My wife is a Fine Arts graduate. She dealt with the interplay between art and disturbing. I dealt with the interplay between science and morbidity. I think both of us can understand and appreciate this artist's work, but in the end I prefer my kitties stuffed only with cat food, and preferably curled up sleeping as they are now.
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