Mary Frey

With a facination for birds and old printing processes it is hard to not find these Imagining Sauna interesting. The details and tones creates something deep, and dreaming. For Bubo.


"Photography invites us to pay attention. It describes with economy, precision and detail.It enables us to stare, scrutinize, and becomevoyeurs. Taxidermy allows us to do the same. Its complete replication of an animal’s stance,

gesture and look provides us a way to study and comprehend its existence. Yet I find that these animals, often portrayed in suspended animation, seem simultaneously strange, ghostly and beautiful. Their gaze is both familiar and unknown. I intend this work to move beyond what is merely seen to theterritory of the imagination, where what is remembered and known is transformed into something new."                Mary Frey



                                                             Grackle, 2008



                                    Three Grackles, 2008



                                           Barn Owl, 2008



                                   American Crow, 2008



                                  Saw Whet Owls, 2008

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