Jammybirds
EXQUISITE CORPSES
Making a stuffed bird laugh is Victorian slang for 'absolutely preposterous'. We wanted to create some preposterous images and so collaborated to make these exquisite corpses…Exquisite corpses involve a different artist drawing each segment of the image, without knowledge of what has come before. We made envelopes with flaps so that we could produce the pictures (without folding and less temptation to sneak a peak), these were passed between us. At one point there could be 3 on the go. One of us would draw the head and then the other would draw the middle and hand it back for the legs to be completed. This was so much fun and only once did we, unknowingly, repeat an idea. Unfortunately work commitments meant we ran out of steam and unfortunately didn't complete all we wanted. And as a treat there is one unseen 'corpse' in this collection
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