Nancy Diessner, Blindsight Xl
NANCY DIESSNER
What happens when the sky falls? Space flips in and out; stars and constellations find themselves on land; animals, stumble out of the land and twist and turn in ambiguous space. Our sense of security is shaken to the core.
These new prints incorporate my photographs of animals killed by a big game hunter, who prized them as trophies: the largest horns, the most beautiful specimen, or the last of their kind (now extinct) from around the world. I came upon them in Montana when their taxidermied bodies were undergoing restoration before being shipped to a California museum from the hunter’s estate.
I want to give the specimens a new world in which to exist, one that I have artificially, manufactured and twisted for them, in order to soften the blow that their sky has fallen.