I admit that I had to stop and think about posting this, wondering if it was too morbid. I have never much cared for taxidermy but when i think of it I think of the deer heads and the like that I have encoucntered over the years ... But when i saw Polly Morgan's melancholic and provocative work I was taken, I was moved ... I felt.I wondered of stories inspired by by (probaby) unrelated to the animals, of the trembles of love and grace and sadness. I also recalled memories of childhood involving birds and my confusion and curiosity about death. I wasn't afraid of the dead birds I would find in our yard, I would hold, look at them long trying to understand what it was like to die and what it is to be alive ...There is certainly something marvelous in death, bittersweet at best but beautiful. Polly's work celebrates something more than, and the best part of life ... wonder.
Originally discovered in the currentn issue (38) of Selvedge Magazine
Title Quote: e.e. cummings
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