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Beastly Love: Lisa Wood
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 at 08:34AM
NAME: Lisa Wood
AGE: 46
OCCUPATION: artist
LOCATION: San Francisco
TOTAL NUMBER OF TAXIDERMY PIECES: 40 and counting
FAVOURITE PIECE: my lamb named Roberta
1. What was your very first piece of taxidermy? About 20 years ago I found this little duckling at a flea market in New York and felt so sorry for him that I had to take him home.
2. Where do you find pieces for your collection? Flea markets, friends, on-line auctions, estate sales.
3. Where do you display your taxidermy? Everywhere in my tiny apartment.
4. How or when did you become interested in taxidermy? It was after the purchase of that not-so-perfect duckling that I soon started adopting other pieces that needed homes.
5. What do you think taxidermy is? Art? Souvenir? Kitsch? Nature? It's all those things. I tend to be in denial about how they died...I try not to buy anything that might have been hunted or made into a trophy...I see my collection as representations of nature...only mine wear little hats and pearl necklaces.
6. Do any pieces have names? Besides Roberta the lamb...there is Thomas the rat (that cheats at cards).
7. Have you ever prepared a taxidermy mount? Nope.
8. Do you worry about displaying so much death... that is, do you ever get negative reactions to your collection? Some of my friends think it's a bit much, but they know the pieces are much loved and respected...more like a celebration of life!
9. Why do you think taxidermy is back in fashion? I think a lot of people are going back to where museums originally started...in the home.
10. If you were reincarnated as an animal, what would you be and why? Probably a humpback whale...I'd like to get as far away from humans as possible.
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