Taxidermy is weird and wonderful

As a child I had a morbid fascination with collecting fossils and skulls. I'd go for walks in the country with the folks and scour the ground for what I could find. Once I found a dead dogfish washed up on the shore just North of Blackpool. What a prize. I was totally into sharks at the time and begged to take it back in the car. Mum didn't let us (it did smell a bit).

As I grew older my interests shifted. I'd pass the shop in Essex Road filled with dead animals and think it was weird that people would be into that. Really creepy. But I'd still stop. Always. Check out the freakyness of it all.

Over the last year the subject keeps on popping up. First, I watched a documentary on the people behind the practice (I'll refer to it when I can find the name). Someone then did a campaign at college featuring the subject. Now a friend shows me this and I get a new awe.




More interesting stuff people are doing with dead animals here.