Taxidermy

Taxidermy historically has mainly occupied two contexts. One is that of teaching aid, a visual and accessible specimen of a species, displayed in a museum. However, taxidermy is also a method of creating hunting trophies, records and displays of kills in lands domestic and foriegn. This project investigates the representation of taxidermy, an interior specimen of an exterior animal. Paired with careful dioramas of their natural habitat and floral wallpaper, these animals occupy a context completely of their own, both real and wholey faked.