Oh, sweet fancy Moses!
Did you follow the link Wolfus Aurelius dropped in the last comment thread? Kate Clark: Taxidermist of your Nightmares. She combines taxidermy animals with clay models of the faces of her friends to give you a walloping serious case of the jimm-jamms.
Oh, well. She’s in collections all over the world, while I squat on the internet pretending to be a weasel. How fine a nartist am I?
As I have brought work home, I shall leave you to stare into the abyss (one that is definitely staring back this time).
Posted: April 13th, 2016 under animals, art, personal.
Comments: 13
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Comment from Man Mountain Molehill
Time: April 13, 2016, 9:56 pm
Rule 34
Comment from AliceH
Time: April 13, 2016, 10:22 pm
Though I’ve been mostly successful at blocking it out, this triggered memory of a scene in that Malcolm McDowell movie Lucky Man. Which freaked me out. A lot. Still. ::shudder::
Comment from gebrauchshund
Time: April 13, 2016, 10:32 pm
Especially creepy is the way the faces are sort of randomly stitched together like Frankenstein’s monster. I wonder if she ever visited an island owned by a certain Dr. Moreau.
Comment from Pupster
Time: April 13, 2016, 10:55 pm
Sweet Fancy Moses.
Comment from Uncle Al
Time: April 13, 2016, 11:25 pm
Yes, I did follow the link last night. Morbid curiosity kept me looking until I’d seen them all. Very creepy. But for me, it wasn’t the jimm-hamms, it was mostly the heebie-jeebies with a smidgen of the willies.
Comment from Brother Cavil, Nie Mój Cyrk, Nie Moje Małpy
Time: April 14, 2016, 12:03 am
All the NOPEs
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: April 14, 2016, 12:06 am
UA – no trepidation? I think I would have had some trepidation.
Comment from Ric Fan
Time: April 14, 2016, 12:10 am
Come on, stoaty! You’re talented. I have no doubt you can dream up something just as revolting and sell it for big bucks. Shouldn’t Uncle B be supported in a style he is unaccustomed to?
Comment from Nina
Time: April 14, 2016, 12:38 am
Taxidermy gives me the heebies period!
Comment from Mr. Dave
Time: April 14, 2016, 1:59 am
OT: a certain banjoslinger mustalid may be interested to know that Peabody Energy Company has filed for bankruptcy. Spokesman said “Mr. Peabody’s coal train will no longer haul anything.”
Comment from The Neon Madman
Time: April 14, 2016, 3:09 am
Perhaps my definition of “art” is different from hers.
Comment from Can’t Hark My Cry
Time: April 14, 2016, 11:58 am
Wish I could double-like that, Mr. Dave!
Comment from Wolfus Aurelius
Time: April 14, 2016, 4:23 pm
Comment from gebrauchshund
Time: April 13, 2016, 10:32 pm
Especially creepy is the way the faces are sort of randomly stitched together like Frankenstein’s monster. I wonder if she ever visited an island owned by a certain Dr. Moreau.
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That’s what I was trying to think of. You can imagine the mountain lion fellow, for example, glaring at Charles Laughton as Dr. Moreau. “We are men!” or something like that.
Miss Linda insisted we go to the exhibit on my campus, as it was ending. Everybody seems to have one of two reactions: “Fascinating” or “EEEEK!” Oh, and there was Linda’s question. “I wonder what they’d have to say to us?” I answered, “They’d say, ‘Get me out of here!!!!’, or ‘What the hell you starin’ at??'”
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