Video: Steampunk and taxidermy in sculptures by Lisa Black
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Each of us, of course, saw examples of taxidermy and steampunk separately, but how about combining them in one piece? This is what a New Zealand author does. Lisa Black (Lisa Black), creating unique and controversial sculptures.
In her sculptures, Lisa Black combines stuffed animals with various mechanisms, creating strange hybrids, as if they came out of the laboratory of a mad scientist. According to the author, the idea of such works came to her by chance: Lisa decided to make a robotic horse, and since it is impossible to work with live animals in this case, she had to look for old stuffed animals for these purposes.
Many people find taxidermy repulsive and unacceptable, so in the beginning Lisa Black created sculptures for her own pleasure, not intending to show them to the general public. However, to the author's surprise, her hobby was supported by family and friends, and then it turned out that the unusual steampunk animals have many fans.
Lisa Black created her first sculpture in mid-2007 - it was a deer, on which the author worked for three months. Since then, many other works have appeared in her collection: a turtle, a crocodile, a duckling, a rabbit, a ferret … "I do not set myself the goal of glorifying the beauty of animals or their death, as other taxidermy masters suggest, I just propose an aesthetic deviation," says Lisa Black.
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