Video: Bicycle "horns" as hunting trophies. Bicycle Taxidermy, an art project by Regan Appleton
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Do you still have an old but beloved bicycle, which you rode around the yard as a child, broke your knees and foreheads for the first time, overtook friends with scooters and rollerblades? Or maybe the first "adult" bike is still gathering dust in the garage or in the country house, with a high frame and a hard leather seat, huge wheels and a wide steering wheel? Or, on the balcony, the remains of a sports bike, which cannot be repaired, are lonely bored, and the hand does not rise to throw away the faithful "horse"? Alas, they cannot be brought back to life, but you can turn them into decorative "trophies" and thus decorate the room, as did Regan Appleton, Scottish designer and graduate of the Royal College of Art, in his art project Bicycle Taxidermy … In his father's garage, the designer discovered a whole warehouse of the remains of old mountain and city bicycles, and his irrepressible imagination immediately found a way to get rid of this trash without throwing it into a landfill. Having twisted the scrap metal in all directions, the designer discovered the similarity of the "skeletons" of bicycles with the skeletons of animals. And the steering wheel desperately resembles horns, the traditional trophies with which hunters usually decorate the room. This is how the art project Bicycle Taxidermy was born.
The inhuman obsession with taxidermy, which is frowned upon by environmentalists, vegetarians and animal lovers, has been replaced by the obsession with "cycling taxidermy". A way to keep a faithful iron "friend" with you, with whom many adventures have been experienced and kilometers wound up. And instead of burying it in a garage or in a landfill, a bicycle can be turned into a family heirloom by making a "trophy" out of it, having issued it according to the rules of taxidermy, and assigning it to a place of honor above the bed, or a coffee table, or even a mantelpiece.
The cost of such a "trophy" is £ 100. More information about the project is on the Bicycle Taxidermy website.
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