More Teacups and Research

While I was getting my tea cups filled with clear resin, I decided to do a bit more research on artists who used found objects and parts of animals and I came across Polly Morgan. Her most famous work ''Endless Pain'' Was a show about the cycle of life and death. She wanted to created spaces within hollowed out bodies. She is well known for her taxidermy pieces and endless pain was no different.

“My new work is about a corruption of nature. It’s not things as they would happen; birds don’t eat mushrooms, pigs don’t suckle trees, octopuses don’t inhabit dead fox carcasses, generally, but I wanted to do a perverse representation of nature. But I don’t think I've pushed it to the realm of fantasy and it’s almost believable.”

Her work is mostly with little flightless birds, almost representing abortion, called 'still birth'. A dead chick with only a helium balloon to keep it floating , not flying. I personally love her work. I think It relates very much to my work as I deal with the bones of dead animals just in different ways. Instead of highlighting the death of the animal I try to change it into something beautiful. But the strange thing is her work is incredibly beautiful!