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.)
posted by tracicle 17 years ago
  • 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.
  • "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.