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#1 hollisterbay

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Posted 18 September 2008 - 09:57 AM

I have a project for college and I want to do something crazy – even if it seems “cruel” to some people.

I want to get an animal which I have already chosen…it will be dead…and I want to freeze it in motion and store it in some type of “material/liquid”

Then like boz it in some sort of glass box so it is see through and inside will be this animal in the given pose

Anybody know something I could use to do this…even it is a bit expensive material…obviously the animal can not corrode

Something like you know Hunters, get a head of a Deer maybe they have killed and it is stuffed and they put it the head on a mantel peice..something like that but within a substance that can be put in a see through box of glass..so like some kind of chemical liquid

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Posted 18 September 2008 - 11:37 AM

I have a project for college and I want to do something crazy – even if it seems "cruel" to some people.

I want to get an animal which I have already chosen…it will be dead…and I want to freeze it in motion and store it in some type of "material/liquid"

Then like boz it in some sort of glass box so it is see through and inside will be this animal in the given pose

Anybody know something I could use to do this…even it is a bit expensive material…obviously the animal can not corrode

Something like you know Hunters, get a head of a Deer maybe they have killed and it is stuffed and they put it the head on a mantel peice..something like that but within a substance that can be put in a see through box of glass..so like some kind of chemical liquid


try a google search on Damien Hirst and his work :-)

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Posted 18 September 2008 - 03:38 PM

This isn't really my area of expertise, but the first thing that comes to my mind would be like a gelatine with some form of preservative in it?
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Posted 18 September 2008 - 03:55 PM

I would be tempted to seek advice from a trade orgaisation,........try the website below.....and let us know how you get on!


http://www.taxidermy...about-taxidermy

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Posted 18 September 2008 - 09:01 PM

Pathology specimens are usually preserved in alcohol or formaldehyde (aq).

It does seem that Damien hiest has got there first! Though at the prices his work is fetching I wouldn't mind some of that! Whether the market will stand another "enfant terribile" I don't know.
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Posted 19 September 2008 - 12:47 PM

Yes Arthur is correct,..............`Formalin`-(; formaldehyde (40% volume)/Methanol (6 to 13%) and the rest is water (purified) that is used to preserve Damien Hirst`s works.

Apparently he (Hirst) obtains his animals from a slaughter house, and has a team of 65 who specialize in display cabinet making to techniques in preparing the animals before injecting the solution (probably using vacuum pumps/valves etc) to dispel the air bubbles in the display cabinets.




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