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  • deconstructing santa
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    • The descent
    • Real estate performances
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    • Burning Love
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    • My Friend, Muhammad ALi
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    • the pit
    • Floods >
      • Flood 1
      • Flood 2
    • disappearing act
  • nepa
    • Sahara inn
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    • Sheepdog massacre
    • Spy bovine
    • taxidermy
    • The bow hunter (poetics of structured chance)
    • bananas
  • Santa
    • Mall santa
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    • santa house
    • Santa house 2
    • real estate santa
    • mall santa 2
  • Ronald
    • Ronald
    • Ronald 2
  • i robber to you tonight
  • The black cube
  • White cubes
    • White cubes
    • Mathieu's cube
  • union
  • The stream of jewels
  • deconstructing santa
  • Home
  • The trailer
  • Gilberton
    • The lot
    • The police chief
    • Police chief update
    • Voice to skull technology or Word of God
    • Candy man
    • The purloined letters of Gilberton
    • The descent
    • Real estate performances
    • Spaghetti and meatballs
    • Burning Love
    • Shen'doh fire
    • My Friend, Muhammad ALi
    • Haloing
    • The second haunting
    • the pit
    • Floods >
      • Flood 1
      • Flood 2
    • disappearing act
  • nepa
    • Sahara inn
    • Null murder
    • Sheepdog massacre
    • Spy bovine
    • taxidermy
    • The bow hunter (poetics of structured chance)
    • bananas
  • Santa
    • Mall santa
    • church santa
    • santa house
    • Santa house 2
    • real estate santa
    • mall santa 2
  • Ronald
    • Ronald
    • Ronald 2
  • i robber to you tonight
  • The black cube
  • White cubes
    • White cubes
    • Mathieu's cube
  • union
  • The stream of jewels
  Econo Lodge

Taxidermy

In 2009 I began studying with a taxidermist in Pennsylvania.  I found him in the phone book.  Despite my being a stranger, Frank allowed me to shadow him in his basement where he ran his full-time business.  

Over the past several years I have learned to skin, flesh, tan, and mount deer, clean skulls, and cast and make molds of body parts.  I have also worked with coyotes, bear, foxes, fish, and birds and have accompanied Frank to taxidermy conventions and competitions.
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Helping Frank judge West Virginia's 2010 competition

Transcriptions

Frank was an avid hunter and described his experience as a metaphysical process.  The stillness of waiting produced hyper sensitivity which allowed him to become practically dissolve into his surroundings.  I was fascinated by this complete and conscious act.  On separate occasions I asked permission to tape record him and later transcribed the sessions in a notebook.

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