Place and Home

"We experience slums, prairies, and wetlands all equally as places.

Like a mirror, a place can hold anything, on any scale." Gary Snyder - The Practice of the Wild

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When I was in high-school I had a friend whose Dad was a taxidermist. He worked on polar bears, wolves, black bears, beavers, moose, deer and everything else that you could think of. Apparently, it's quite an art form. The taxidermist has to "pose" the animal and the animal's expression in a way that is believable and true to nature. Many taxidermists draw, paint, sculpt and photograph animals for practice. Do you think this is an art form? What makes the artfulness of this practice different from traditional or contemporary sculpture?