Two-Faced Kitten
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwOMoC40q6k
Possible Tasmanian Tiger Sighting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40nJPTQMY-0&feature=related
Recently Extinct Animals
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Conjoined Sheep Fetus Project
My next project I did a lot of research on animal deformities. At my home in Philadelphia, there is the Mutter Museum, which has a whole bunch of human medical malformities. It has preserved fetuses and limbs, deformed skeletons, human skin-bound books, and other really gross stuff. For this project, I made a very ambiguous human/sheep/goat conjoined fetus out of plaster gauze.
Sheep!
For my next project, I found inspiration in old Italian folklore. The city where my family is from, Forli, has lots of mythology surrounding. One story in particular depicts the city's only source of water being guarded by a ferocious dragon, and the only way for the townspeople to retrieve water is to lure the dragon away using sacrificial sheep as well as women (chosen through a lottery). When a princess is chosen to be the bait, she is rescued by St. George, who slays the dragon. I'm not too excited about the idea of women (or sheep) being sacrificed to dragons, so I created a model Bergamasca sheep, a breed native to northern Italy. The sheep I made was created out of twine and braided paper.
Extinct Animals
So I guess for my first project I did a lot of research on recently extinct animals, most of which have gone extinct within the past one hundred years. I was really interested in the fact that so many animals can just cease to exist. When I was really little, I remember watching this children's show about the Tasmanian Tiger and how the species was believed to be extinct, but there were still people trying to find them. All I remember was hoping so much that they could find more and that it wasn't extinct. That was my inspiration for this project. I made a three piece series that had very faint abstractions of these animals layered on top of one another across the paper.
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