Papuans removed birds' feet but kept the plumage in tact They used them as currency The explorers didn't know this. Footless birds were born, in the developed world: Birds of Paradise. What could be more other? The re-prepared bird had been taxidermied. It was cocky, cocksure: An embodiment of museum culture The taxidermist and I removed its feet, and made a blueprint photogram of their ghostly absence The legs on the wallpaper rotate clockwise and anticlockwise Between falling and flight A gap, a translation, a mistranslation. (based on Zac Langdon-Pole's introduction to the discussion in the video above) Image below: Installation view of Zac Langdon-Pole at Ars-Viva-2018, Ghent How do you make a lacquered space? How do you make a lacquered image inside a space? It almost makes organic forms by itself, an image without tension The process created its own image Like the first human mark makers in stone, in a cave I sanded away - like geology Creating stone realism - from lacquer (Based on Phi Phi Oanh's introduction to the discussion in the video above) Image: Phi Phi Oanh, Specula, 2009
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