Taxidermy: Sarina Brewer

As part of looking at the idea and themes of collectors and collections, I am quite interested in looking at Taxidermy. Although it can be seen as grotesque and sometimes inhumane, there are artists who do this as their main practice and exhibit often. For example, Sarina Brewer uses only salvaged bits of roadkill, discarded pieces of livestock, and other donated animal items to 're-imagine the boundaries between species and between myth and concrete form' (http://www.ravishingbeasts.com/contemporary-art/). "I call it art," she writes on her website, "you can call it whatever you want." One example of Brewer's work is called North Woods Chimera; three vulture heads sprouting from the body of a cat.