Amazing These surreal sculptures might bother you, but they are also curiously fascinating

These surreal sculptures might bother you, but they are also curiously fascinating -

Celebrating the triumph of life by creating art out of dead animals seem enough against-intuitive, but when London- based artist Polly Morgan fact, you can see how the meaning of the decision made.

Morgan began using taxidermy in his work in the early 00s, and his sculptures display preserved animals arranged in slightly surreal and disturbing scenes that explore the inevitability of death. At the same time, his work examines the new life that flows from the death and the life cycle of the prosecution in the intertwined relationships between all living beings.

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Polly Morgan

Hanging in the Balance

Polly Morgan

Sometimes something happens

Polly Morgan

myocardial infarction

Polly Morgan

Some of his pieces are strange, as the chicks emerging from a phone receiver. the tiny worlds created for other creatures under glass bells are quietly unsettling. others are much more visceral and unnerving, like the flocks of birds that come out a deer carcass, or dead pig erupting with purple mushroom.

Although images like these could make us wince, intends Morgan is actually highlight the triumph of life. Although it uses the creatures are dead, their presence makes us imagine them as they were in life, keeping their memories alive. in other cases, as in the piece of pork, Morgan sets scenes show how the dead are recycled by nature to create new life.

Receiver

Polly Morgan

Hide and fight

Polly Morgan

to every seed his own body

Polly Morgan

Sometimes , Sunday

Polly Morgan

Exitus

Polly Morgan

still birth (Red)

Polly Morgan

Some Sad Story

Polly Morgan

Communion

Polly Morgan

Although she studied taxidermy with a professional, Morgan is not interested in becoming a traditional taxidermist. instead of asking the animals in their natural environments, it introduces forms manipulated in surreal scenes. she sometimes cut out and used body parts for .. an even stranger effect

friends and fans send his animals from all over the world These animals are already dead & mdash; usually as roadkill & mdash; and are then used by Morgan in his tracks . the animals are harmed in the making of this art.

Archipelago

Polly Morgan

The Fall

Polly Morgan

Carrion Call

Polly Morgan

Inseparable

Polly Morgan

Harbour

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Polly Morgan