Acrylic on text (definitions of victim & victor from an old dictionary) on Victor brand rat trap.We actually bought the trap late last Summer when hordes of enormous rats invaded our neighborhood (after the closing of the local pizza place & consequent dearth of dumpster delights).
I just couldn't bring myself to use it for its intended purpose. I thought about live traps, but then what??? So I quit composting food scraps instead... it seemed to discourage them, at least temporarily... but they're seasonal, right? (Squirm...)
Anyway, one day as I was contemplating the trap & wondering if I was a hopeless softy, I realized what I really wanted to do with it.
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This looks like a a really beautiful and precious object now!
I'm sure it contains a very intense energy and you have kind of revamped it. It's very intriguing...
Good luck with the new exhibition Leah!
So, so clever...and humane too boot!
amazing work, as always
I love this piece.....reminds me of decades ago when my kids and I trapped mice in Have a Heart cages, in our home in the country. We then let them go in the wooded parking lot of a nearby grocery store. God forbid they should starve in their new location!
Delight! This in its splayed morbidity reminds me of the pressed fairy book... plus I'm glad to hear you get those morbid kicks though art as opposed to actually killing vermin...
cheers!
Emily
have no idea how u do it but love the style.
Amazing! Love the colors.
...very vibrant piece of art...really makes your heart go out to the little guy...
Stellar use of mixed media! Love it!
Fantastic. Excellent!!!
that is masterfully done - great idea and execution - love your style and color
great technique and story. very different.
Wow, this is awesome! If it makes you feel any better, sometimes I feel bad about killing ants. One time I got all choked up because I accidentally tore a leg of a critter I was trying to free from some unidentifiable sticky substance.
This one really stands out in the Illustration Friday list with its emotion...but it's so sad now I have to go find some cartoons
Arhhh. I used a humane trap once. Caught two mice but was too late checking it. Both were dead and one had part cannibalised the other. Horrible - worse than a steel trap. Never again. Now I just make sure I never leave anything that counts as food around.
Really like what you have done.
great technique and really nice take on the subject.
This is brilliant!!
You painted the mousetrap?! That's wonderful!
I did the same thing, bought rat poison for the rats in our ceiling, and then couldn't bring myself to use it.
Perhaps you can display your mousetrap artwork somewhere where they'll see it, as a warning sign for them :)
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