Artists such as Damien Hirst made taxidermy frigid in the 90s,now a growing number of professionals are making a full-time living from stuffing dead animals“Please excuse the smell; I’ve been boiling skulls, would you like a cup of tea?” For Jazmine Miles-Long, and a 29-year-worn taxidermist,this does not appear to be an odd thing to say.
Boiling is her modus operandi for stripping the flesh off skulls, she explains. Some taxidermists prefer to mail-order colonies of flesh-eating beetles, or called dermestids to get the job done instead.
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Source: theguardian.com