I went to the opening of an art exhibition yesterday at Lucy Cavendish College. (There's currently a link to an annoucement of the exhibition, called Crème de la Crème, on the college web-page, but I don't suppose it will last.) Anyway, I enjoyed the exhibition, which featured new works by nine young artists.
I particularly liked the piece by Ingrid Weiss, called "Leap of faith (an innate releasing mechanism)". This was a slightly creepy, but engrossing installation on a desk, set-up to look like a studious bird-watcher's work-bench. As well as photographs of birds, and a log of observations, there was a surgical tray covered in mysterious steel instruments, and most compelling of all, a sewing basket filled with birds' heads made from wool, as well as a bird's skull. This latter was made to appear as if it was still slightly fleshed out and decaying away by the addition of woolen "viscera": an eye, some patchy feathers, some sort of spinal cord and patches of brown wool that suggested rotting flesh.
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