Bird Stuffers

About Bird Stuffers

17 oil paintings of various sizes
Oil on jute or cotton rug, or linen
Date: 2023

Ever since humans gained dominance over nature for profit and progress, we have romanticized the natural world by consuming its beauty and destroying it. Bird Stuffers takes a close look at dead birds brought into the home for pleasure, beginning in Victorian England, with taxidermy domes and cabinets. Part Two of Bird Stuffers contains paintings of fallen dead birds which are depicted in the romantic landscapes of Albert Pinkham Ryder, Caspar David Friedrich and John Constable.