Video: DIY mini-farm. Realistic felt animals Kiyoshi Mino
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Gradually, people come to the conclusion that taxidermy is still not an art, and keeping stuffed animals in an apartment is a dubious pleasure and not understandable to everyone. At first glance, the sculptures created by a Japanese author Kiyoshi Mino, may also seem like stuffed animals. But in fact, his animals and birds, both wild and domestic, are realistic. felt sculptureswhich he paired up with his wife Emma at their shared Lucky Duck Farm in Illinois. The desire to live on a farm came from Kiyoshi Mino after he served in the army, including in Afghanistan. There I saw how the inhabitants of this country live in the villages, growing everything they need in their gardens, grazing livestock and harvesting crops. I realized that this gives them the opportunity not to depend on what is happening around them, to live without unnecessary fuss and anxiety, to take care of the family and household, to enjoy such simple things as the sun, rain and coolness. And he wanted to live easier himself, to be closer to the earth and spend more time with his family. Then he and his wife got a farm. And not only real, but also handmade felt farm.
Curiously, teaching this art was part of the training program for farmers, which all novice farmers and pastoralists must complete. Until that time, Kiyoshi Mino had never held a felting needle in his hands, and today he creates stunning realistic figures of animals and birds that are not much different from living ones, if you look at them from afar or see them in a photograph. With his own hands, he does the impossible, transforming merino wool, dyed in different colors, into fur, down, skin and feathers of various living creatures, doing it with pharmaceutical precision. Therefore, his figures are anatomically correct, and in realism are not inferior to the prepared carcasses of animals and birds. But in the process of creating felt miniatures, not a single living creature was harmed.
The news about their life on the farm, as well as new items of the collection of felt inhabitants of the mini-farm, are published by the spouses on their creative website. Or show it in the ODLCO gallery. Such realistic animals cost from $ 50 to $ 400.
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