I stumbled upon Mia-Jane Harris’ art while surfing Pinterest. She takes disposed corpses and turns them into beautiful art. To me that’s the ultimate art: turning something naturally associated with quench and turning it into a museum-deserving piece. As a physician dealing with life and death, I was naturally drawn towards her perspective and…… Continue reading Art as Memento Mori – An Interview with Mia-Jane Harris
Tag: Taxidermy
Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads
Natural history museums got too crazy about multimedia – why can’t the public appreciate the fine manual skills necessary to preserve an organism? A breathless zoo garden, a display of still life – frozen in time – all beautiful words for what are actually dead corpses. How come humans developed the interest for preserving and…… Continue reading Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads