Seuss-Inspired Taxidermy of the Day: Sculptor Carl “Biscuitboy” Turner has created a menagerie of Dr. Seuss-inspired taxidermied animal heads for a project he calls “The Lost Fauna of Scoffer’s Island.”
The wall-mounted creatures he’s sculpted include a lovesick walrus, a “baffler bird,” a “giant land rat”, a “Seuss moose,” and a “crested gripe monkey.”
Rather than reusing actual Seuss creations, Turner has invented his own animals, and a story about how these fantastical specimens came to be discovered on Scoffer’s Island many years ago.
He says the work is “a series of reconstructions based upon records and illustrations brought back by Erasmus P Jiggins, junior zoological officer on the 1863 voyage headed by Sir Bartholomew Scoffer to the remote island in the Pacific known by its indigenous population as Zuzu Batu.”
It may not rhyme, but it’s as good an explanation as any.
Check out the rest of the taxidermy sculptures after the jump.
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