The steel structures found within mounted Birds of paradise from a private collection were revealed through a horse Vet’s x-ray machine and reconstructed in rare earth neon.

Special thanks to Errol Fuller

Commissioned for the exhibition ‘Verschwindende Vermächtnisse: Die Welt als Wald’, at the Zoological Museum Hamburg.
Photo 1 by Michael Pfisterer, photos 2-3 by Selma Gurbuz