Video: Why Karley Feaver decorates dead birds with human hair
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Like many artists, Karley Feaver also has a full-time job. Colleagues at the bank try to avoid situations in which there is a danger of accidentally looking into her mail, because they know that Carly spends her free time as an assistant secretary decorating stuffed animals with beads, feathers, hats and fake braids.
“Once, when I was on vacation, the substitute employee nearly got a heart attack when she opened a package with a dead mouse,” Fever says. Hardly anyone wants to repeat this.
Raised on a dairy farm in New Zealand, Carly has always loved animals. Love sometimes takes on strange forms. “In taxidermy, I am attracted by the opportunity to study the appearance of an animal, its behavior, and try to preserve its majesty even after death,” the artist comments. Someday Fever would like to lead her own zoo.
Carly studied at the Wellington School of Design and until 2006 was engaged in traditional acrylic painting on canvas, from time to time depicting a delicate long-legged deer or a bird in flight in her paintings. The wild duck changed everything: “I started buying stuffed animals at auctions and garage sales. A duck with a broken neck got to me first”. To hide the flaw, Carly used materials that were at hand. Thus began her journey into the eccentric reality of contemporary art.
Fever herself is not involved in taxidermy as such. She orders from suppliers of "naturally dead" birds from suppliers, mainly in Australia, where there are "more exotic creatures", then gives them to a professional taxidermist, who, guided by the artist's sketches, makes them stuffed. One of the technical challenges Fever loves to tackle is how to attach decorative elements to a scarecrow so that the finished work doesn't fall apart.
And, of course, like any contemporary artist, Fever argues that there is a serious message behind her work, which may seem like pure embellishment. Inspired by Rachel Poliquin's book The Breathless Zoo, which chronicles the history of ancient taxidermy practices and the motives behind the human desire to preserve animal corpses, Fever summarizes his concept of creativity as follows: “Using jewelry and braided human hair, I want to combine birds and human behavior, to show what we are ready to go for in order to attract a partner."
Birds are an extremely popular motif in all genres of art and design. One of the artists working with bird feathers is American Chris Maynard.
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