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By Colleen Sheehy
In 2009, when Mark Dion created his sculpture Monument to the Birds of Puffin Island, he contracted with a taxidermist to provide him with rats. This piece was one of his macabre sculptures, highlighting the grotesque. Unlike traditional taxidermy that aims to present idealized examples of species in a moment of poised stillness, [...]