"Animal Logic"

I visited the UMMA for the first time in a while today. There's an exhibit on the first floor, a series called "Animal Logic" by Richard Barnes, that I enjoyed a lot. His huge prints of natural history installations are incredible to look at. So incredible, perhaps, because of the juxtaposition with human beings and taxidermy. At first it's pretty strange to look at these and you might wonder, "What the hell?" But I think it's pretty clear when you go through the series the comment Barnes is trying to make. The giraffe is my favorite.

"Museums, like warehouses, are containers of the dead... great warehouses of objects." -Richard Barnes

You can see the exhibit's site here.
These small images don't do the series justice though, as some of the prints are five feet in length, so go see it.

Oh yeah, today is Gandhi's birthday.