Etsy shop Nocik and Etsy Shop Cloven Hoof Curiosa both goodies that I’d love to have hanging in my dining room (or the Dying room, according to my son). The mouse is real, but the unicorn is not, obviously. Anywho, check out the mouse paws made into earrings- how gauche! But I’d …
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Since we’re on the subject of dead animals….Here is a series called “Natura Morta” by Maria Ionova-Gribina. Maria was bike riding along the sea somewhere in her native Russia where she found these cute dead little creatures. They all had one thing in common- they all said ‘bye, bitch’ without a proper send …
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The team at Ossuaria scours the land for animal carcasses to be made into jewelry, like necklaces and rings. Cat skulls, German Shepard vertebrae, fish bones and more are a few of the parts used in this macabre jewelry line. This is something we would find in Hannibal Lector‘s boudoir …
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British milliner, Loren Wood, took a bunch of dead pigeons, partridges and other small feathered friends and put them on a hat. He also took an iguana and stuck it on a hat. They actually look cool, especially the one pigeon in the fourth photo that’s trying to escape by sliding …
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New Zealand artist Bruce Mahalski has been collecting animal bones ever since he was a child. See- it’s not just hobbits in New Zealand, but actual Bone Collectors. Errrr…. anyway, he’ll take these animal bones that beling to cats, ferrets, rabbits, sheep, hawks, and more and turn them into guns. The “spare …
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Words of wisdom from German artist Iris Scheiferstein, “The earlier you die – the longer you are dead.” Ummmmmmmm…. yeah. Makes sense, I guess. But you gotta say it in a German accent for the full effect. Iris takes dead animals and preserves them into footwear, because everyone needs to wear …
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