I just had to post these images of Julia de Ville's work. She is a contemporary jewellery designer and taxidermist who is influenced by the Memento Mori jewellery of the 15th to 18th centuries and Victorian mourning jewellery. By incorporating materials such as human hair, taxidermy and jet (a petrified wood historically used in Victorian mourning jewellery) she reminds us of our own mortality in a bold but beautiful way.
'I consider my taxidermy a celebration of life, a preservation of something beautiful.'
- Julia de Ville
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