I am usually not a huge fan of three-dimensional art, but there are certain kinds of work I will always love and find exquisite. Taxidermy has been in my life for a long time, and watching my father put together deer heads and other animal figures was a sight for me growing up. The whole process is interesting.
Jessica Joslin had an interest in Victorian-era taxidermy and started to collect an assortment of natural objects such as shells, bones, feathers, seedpods, etc. She utilized taxidermy and thus created her first, one of a kind, taxidermy beast in 1992. Her art has a truly unique and creepy appearance. I think she is wonderful and I am glad to have stumbled onto her art.
The one above was made using a real turtle shell, bone, brass hardware, beads, antique vestment trim, leather, and glass eyes!
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The top one is especially creepy, yet really alluring!
Thanks for visiting my little blog, Shayla...I'm just east of you in Indy.
Have you seen any stop-animated movies of Jan Svankmajer? His 'Alice' is what I immediately thought of when I saw this Jessica Joslin stuff. Also the stop-animated work of the Quay brothers.
RE: Miyazaki...I only "reviewed" (half-assedly) 'Totoro' because I recommended it to one of my 4 1/2 blog readers and he didn't like it. He must be a creep.
In case I didn't sell Svankmajer hard enough...since 'Alice' is a loose 'Wonderland' adaptation, it does have a rabbit. Albeit a fairly creepy one. And Svankmajer is wonderfully surreal, so you'd probably dig it. I don't have 'Alice' on my little blog, but I have some other Svankmajer hits, a couple collections of his shorts and a couple features.
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