Look at this taxidermy marvel! NaBloPoMo Day 18

It is a taxidermy deer bedecked in crystals

The artist, Kohei Nawa calls it a "PixCell"

When Darcey and Kent were in the city we popped into the Met and whipped through "Asia." And Woah!!! There he was! 

Another angle of the deer which is so sparkly I could barely take a picture!

I had seen this same PixCell deer marvel at the Met maybe ten years ago. That time it was upstairs in one of those crazy rooms on top of "Egypt" with a huge skylight and sunshine flooding in. The deer was lit up like a celebration. 

I was so taken by the whole sight of it I went back again a week later, but the exhibit had already changed. I couldn't remember the name of the artist and was therefore totally S.O.L.  I mean, what the f* do you google if you want to find a crystal taxidermy deer? 

oh. well. I just googled "crystal taxidermy deer" and found a very relevant video:

I'd swear it was a new video but it's 11 years old... probably they made it the last time this deer was on display at the Met, meaning, when I'd seen it the first time. Maybe it's just that google has improved? I'm going to go with that theory.

Anyway. I thought about this deer more than once over the past decade, but at some point I started to wonder how much I had imagined and how much of it was real. The sign says the artist may have been inspired by deer that "evoke Japanese deities" out front a shrine in Japan. I can kinda see it. It sticks in your mind's eye that's for damn sure.

This time around, they put the deer right by the Chinese Garden on the second floor just past "Korea." Because of the courtyard, there was again, natural light, but the setting is just a little less ... mind blowing than that room upstairs. Still amazing, but it felt more inside the dim, hushed museum than bedecked in sky.

When I see art like this, I'm so inspired by the humans who are able to, and do, create such incredible eye candy. Even though, yeah. It's actually a dead deer in there.