Cassandra Smith’s bedazzled taxidermy
|A simple way to sum up Cassandra Smith’s artwork would be to describe it as ‘bedazzled taxidermy’. Further inspection of her work reveals careful precision, amazing attention to detail, and a whole new spin and respect for the decorative arts.
Cassandra Smith has managed to take unexpected items and put them together in a way that seems playful and perplexing — like your crazy grandmother who lives in the Midwest, and wears crazy costume jewelry to bingo night dinners at the local hunting lodge. In other words: amazing!
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