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Prisoners’ Inventions Project by Temporary Services
Temporary Services is an artist collective (made up of Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin and Marc Fischer) based out of Chicago, who create activist-minded public projects which challenge conventional forms of public expression. One ridiculously interesting project they’ve undertaken is Prisoners’ … Continue reading
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Tagged art, criminal, imagination, institution, inventions, outsider art, tattoos
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Jane Howarth’s beautiful bird guts and a rant about lousy artist statements
I recently came across this arresting image of a taxidermied seagull with luxurious pearl entrails spilling out of its split carcass. It was repinned on a certain nameless photo sharing site with no credit or links to the artist (a … Continue reading
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Tagged art, bird, grotesque, imagination, jewels, pearl, rant, sculpture, taxidermy
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The bejeweled bugs of Hubert Duprat
The common caddisfly is a moth-like insect, found near lakes, streams, ponds and rivers, and often used as a bait for trout fishermen. Caddisfly larvae are aquatic, and spin protective silk cases which incorporate bits of material from their surroundings, … Continue reading
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Tagged art, curiosities, gold, imagination, insect, jewels, pearl, science
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A strange humanoid creature: Charles Waterton’s ‘Nondescript’
I think that probably every person, at some point in their lives, gets the urge to make their own ridiculously interesting creature out of the shaved a** of a monkey. (Right?) Well this grim little fellow is the product of … Continue reading
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Tagged art, curiosities, History, hoax, imagination, taxidermy
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