http://www.ianvancoller.com/
Go in this link to "Galleries", and then to the "Natural History Series 2003-04". Ian Van Coller is a photographer who finished his MFA at UNM in 2003. This series was on display at the university art museum along with a display of Taos modernists. I loved his artist's statement comparing museum dioramas (using stuffed specimens, natural materials, and impressionistic background paintings}, to his process using photographs and printmaking. He is originally from South Africa.
The skunk diorama in the basement of UNL's Morrill Hall is one of my earliest vivid memories. The baby skunks and the stump and the painted rosy pink sunrise background linked with Hershey's kisses wrapped in crinkly foil with that little flag is such a multi-sensory memory that it will probably be the last view I have before I visit the big natural history museum in the sky.
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