Student Uses Roadkill to Produce Art


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LONDON - A rabbit becomes a pot plant and a beheaded owl is turned into a desk tidy: by the alchemy of art, British university student Ebony Andrews is turning dead animals ? including pieces of roadkill ? into provoking artworks.

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The 22-year-old fine art student at Newcastle's Northumbria University said Thursday her exhibition of dead animals, which went on display this week, was a commentary on how "the public use animals as commodities."

Another piece involves a dead squirrel whose insides have been replaced by the remote control for a DVD player. Andrews said she was a little nervous about the public response to her work, but since the exhibition opened Monday the response has been positive.

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Just plain freaky if you ask me. I wouldn't want this stuff anywhere near my hous:blink:ink:

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at one time I would have been disgusted, but it sounds very interesting. 'commentary on how "the public use animals as commodities."'

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Ever heard of Taxidermy? This has been done before, to an extent, though using road-kill seems wierd... But then it's a modern artists and they all have strange ideas.

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soon she wont find any material so she will have to go out an actually kill them herself..

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jeez... usually we wait about 2 or 3 pages for the extremist views :rofl:

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I'd be interested to see squirrel used as a remote control; it all sounds pretty strange.

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