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Taxidermy

Dana Stirling

Artist’s statement: We regularly use taxidermy of insects in order to define, categorize and understand them. With all this great variety of insects, people are still able to decide whether they’re looking at a butterfly or dragonfly using common characteristics they know.

Using Photoshop I’ve created new insects out of the ones I photographed. My new insects have nothing to do with practicality; they wouldn’t be able to fly if existed.

I created them with parts of different insects while trying to imitate the most basic distinguishable characteristics of common insects.

The results are meaningless shapes made out of insect parts that we can call or define as a beetle or butterfly by mistake.

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About Dana Stirling

Dana Stirling is a still life and fine art photographer, and the Co-Founder & Editor In-Chief of Float Photo Magazine. She was born in Jerusalem, Israel, and based in Queens, NY. She received her MFA from The School Of Visual Arts in Photography, Video, and Related Media in 2016 and her BA from Hadassah College Jerusalem in Photographic Communications in 2013. Stirling's work has been exhibited internationally including Fresh Paint Art Fair in Tel Aviv, UNICEF Next Generation Photo Benefit at Aperture Foundation NY, “A Process - Der Greif” in Neue Galerie, Höhmannhaus Germany, Google photography Prize at Saatchi Gallery London UK, Brick Lane Gallery, London UK and Tel Hai Museum of Photography Israel. Some press includes the FeatureShoot , Petapixel, and Hyperallergic. Visit danastirling.com.

Author: Dana Stirling Tagged With: art, artists Filed Under: Visual Art and Visual Poetry November 18, 2013

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