Over the last couple of years there have been more than a couple of celebrated photography sets featuring taxidermia, especially creatures lurking in the shadows of museum storage hangars around the world. Danielle Van Ark‘s The Mounted Life does a remarkable job of capturing that elusive feeling of attempting to capture the internal spirit and nature of these creatures, as if they awoke and found themselves suddenly stuck inside the husk of a giant, modern facility. The photos are composed wonderfully – a herd of bewildered impalas, or a flock of birds trying to poke up through their plastic cover, proving that even after removing a creature from both it’s environment and of life itself, their behaviors and innate traits still find a way to come through.
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