{"id":322,"date":"2005-10-16T23:24:18","date_gmt":"2005-10-17T03:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=322"},"modified":"2006-04-05T13:54:19","modified_gmt":"2006-04-05T17:54:19","slug":"taxidermy-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/16\/taxidermy-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxidermy Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2005\/10\/squirrel1.jpg\" width=\"257\" height=\"224\" alt=\"Squirrel\" title=\"Squirrel\" class=\"alignleft\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2005\/10\/squirrel2.jpg\" width=\"272\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Squirrel\" title=\"Squirrel\" class=\"alignright\"\/>So, seriously, is it wrong that I really, really think that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.customcreaturetaxidermy.com\/novelties\/novelties_2aa.html\">a scotch decanter made out of a dead squirrel<\/a> would be dead funny?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s only one of the amusing items at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.customcreaturetaxidermy.com\/\">Custom Creature Taxidermy Arts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This artist&#8217;s story begins as an unassuming science nerd who attended art school to study painting and sculpture at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, earning a BFA in 1992. The artist principally worked with oil paint, found objects and animal remains. Incorporating animal remains into sculpture and abstract painting for over a decade gradually evolved into the art of taxidermy. Although now a licensed taxidermist engaged in free-lance projects for various educational institutions and museums, the artist primarily concentrates on creating her outlandish reveries of fur and flesh.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would also be seriously amused to have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.customcreaturetaxidermy.com\/fantasy\/fantasy_3vv.html\">Chimera<\/a> or a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.customcreaturetaxidermy.com\/fantasy\/fantasy_3ww.html\">Griffin<\/a> at the front door. Something like that could really spice up the entry area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">So, seriously, is it wrong that I really, really think that a scotch decanter made out of a dead squirrel would be dead funny? That&#8217;s only one of the amusing items at Custom Creature Taxidermy Arts. This artist&#8217;s story begins as an unassuming science nerd who attended art school to study painting and sculpture at the Minneapolis College of Art&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/16\/taxidermy-art\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-5c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}