Garden & Gun

THE LIFE PRESERVER Erica Heller

LOCATIONRichmond, VA

MEDIUMTaxidermy

HOMETOWNGreensboro, NC

ot unlike an ambitious portrait artist, Erica Heller aims to capture the living essence of her subjects. But instead of brushes and paints, she first reaches for scalpel and fleshing box, a contraption containing a spinning wire brush that removes tissue and fat from the inside-out remains

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