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So, everyone here loves taxidermy!? I was expecting more mixed reactions!
Quote from: animaltoyforum on November 22, 2014, 12:16:52 PMSo, everyone here loves taxidermy!? I was expecting more mixed reactions!taxidermy is hilarious! It keeps me in stitches!
Am I the only one here who find the taxidermy a creepy thing? I can hardly look at it most of the times. But I find many other things creepy for example some dolls or wax human replicas, there is something disturbing about them. Maybe it's strange that I actually try to sculpt realistic animals and don't like this kind of stuff? From the other hand I really like watching and studying skeletons... I must be weird? About the creepiness of taxidermy, don't you remember the guy from "Psychose" by A. Hitchcock?
Quote from: Ana on November 28, 2014, 03:58:28 PMAm I the only one here who find the taxidermy a creepy thing? I can hardly look at it most of the times. But I find many other things creepy for example some dolls or wax human replicas, there is something disturbing about them. Maybe it's strange that I actually try to sculpt realistic animals and don't like this kind of stuff? From the other hand I really like watching and studying skeletons... I must be weird? About the creepiness of taxidermy, don't you remember the guy from "Psychose" by A. Hitchcock? You're the first person in this thread to find it creepy but you're certainly not alone - there are many people who share your view. I wonder, are you creeped out more by trophy heads, or do you have the same reaction to any taxidermy? How about dried/pinned insects and things, is your reaction the same?Maybe you don't mind skeletons because they are somehow less 'personal' than a skin? Re: Psycho. When one starts to taxidermy members of their own family, that's a sign they've probably overstepped a line...
It sounds like you may be experiencing something analogous to the uncanny valley with taxidermied specimens.
Would anyone object to seeing a taxidermied human being in a museum? Not the kind seen in Body Works that shows the internal anatomy, but more like a human version of traditional animal dioramas. Something like the human diorama in the original Planet of the Apes film.