Brooklyn-based taxidermist-artist puts human faces on animal skins. The artist uses a model who is sitting there curious about this white clay being applied to a standard form and pushed around to resemble her own face. At length, at session's end the model gets up and sees herself with an animal form. "The ears and the antlers are a little surprising to me. They take me closer to the animals."
Cervine ears and antlers projecting outrageously around your head will do that.
Kate says some people thank her for the nightmares others simply say thank you. The link is seen posted on Ace of Spades sidebar with the title, here's something to fuel your nightmares. It is not required an artist be mad as a brush but I suppose it helps. From the start, the first words, Kate cannot be regarded as rational. It is unusual to hear each sentence contradict the previous in succession like this. Don't try to follow, each utterance is its own curlicue.
I don't buy fresh hides.
I buy hides that no one has used.
And I'm repurposing them for my artworks."
How interesting. You are an interesting person, Kate. These words, "fresh," "no one has used," and "repurpose," what do they mean?
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She should do a modern day centaur.
Or perhaps a satyr: the head of Andrew Sullivan on the body of a goat.
No, that would never fly in artsy-fartsy lefty-land.
Those are the exact two I thought of, then pictured them, and rejected them for being worse than already pictured.
The centaur would be a human head on a horses neck. Right there the horse dies because...
why the long face?
The horse's long face is attached to a long neck that places the horse's mouth to the ground so it can forage around and eat grass. I suppose that's what a horse goes for, living grass and not that dried up hay the farmer keeps around.
You'd think a farmer could keep some rolls of sod going for the horse as a break from all that hay or maybe as a treat.
And no hands to pick apples. A regular centaur at least has hands that he can steal a loaf of bread and grab stuff to keep shoving into his grass-hole all day to satisfy the horse body that processes grass and not delicious apple pies as the human face would have. It takes a lot of grass to keep a horse going.
Same thing with the goat. A regular satyr, the real deal, the actual satyr such as recorded in actual history as concretely 100% of FACT has only the hairy legs and hoofs of a goat thus can be played convincingly by a fully human actor especially if the actor is a particularly horny actor such as the actor I saw one time at a neighborhood theater in a play called "Bat Boy" that has an orgy scene in the forest where the goat-man tries to hump every other actress and all other actors that chance upon on stage, he is utterly insatiable incorrigible and with unstoppable hilarious sexuality. The only reason for the scene is to be silly and it is perfect. That was the funniest thing I've ever seen on stage. It cannot be topped with goat with a human head like the dog at the end of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" remake that ends with body-takeover gone bad, a small dog with a human head sighting Donald Southerland. The empodded people scream and point when they sense an unpodded person in their zombie visual field.
It's a progressive disease. It starts with centaurs, passes into sartyrs, and finishes with griffins.
The words make up for the fact that she is engaged in taxidermy with dead animals. She does not want to be confused with common people who put deer heads or fish on their walls.
Same thing with the goat. A regular satyr, the real deal, the actual satyr such as recorded in actual history as concretely 100% of FACT has only the hairy legs and hoofs of a goat thus can be played convincingly by a fully human actor especially if the actor is a particularly horny actor such as the actor I saw one time at a neighborhood theater in a play called "Bat Boy" that has an orgy scene in the forest where the goat-man tries to hump every other actress and all other actors that chance upon on stage, he is utterly insatiable incorrigible and with unstoppable hilarious sexuality. The only reason for the scene is to be silly and it is perfect. That was the funniest thing I've ever seen on stage. It cannot be topped with goat with a human head like the dog at the end of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" remake that ends with body-takeover gone bad, a small dog with a human head sighting Donald Southerland. The empodded people scream and point when they sense an unpodded person in their zombie visual field.
With some changes of characters, that is an old bit that was a staple of comedy back in the day (back in the day of Classical Athens, and it was old even then). But funny!
Whether this artist made a conscious decision to tap into the zeitgeist or just lucked into it she scores a direct hit. All the with-it types see themselves or long to see themselves as "spiritually" at one with the animals. It's the pagan ideal. Put a human face on Cecil's body and she'll be overwhelmed with commissions.
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