拉娜·克鲁克(Lana Crooks)用手工染色的羊毛和丝绸碎片来骗过人们的眼睛，让人们把纺织品看成是骨头，她重现了阳光下蛇类、鸟类和人类的骨骼，并把它们分别放在钟形容器中展示。她认为他的作品是人工制作的标本，因为她精致的雕塑融合了科学、艺术和幻想。她的灵感往往来自书籍和真实的标本，比如在芝加哥菲尔德自然历史博物馆的密室里发现的标本。克鲁克斯在新墨西哥州阿尔伯克基的一家名为“陌生人工厂”(Stranger Factory)的展览上策划了“所有剩下的东西”(All That Remains)的展览，在那里也可以看到她的作品。
Tricking the eye to view textile as bone, Lana Crooks (previously) works with bits of hand-dyed wool and silk to recreate the sun-drenched skeletons of snakes, birds, and humans, displaying them each in bell jars. She considers he works “faux specimensas her delicate sculptures blend science, art, and fantasy. Often her inspirations come from books as well as real specimens, like the ones found in the back rooms of Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History.Crooks curated the group exhibition All That Remains, where her work can also be seen, at the Stranger Factory in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She also has an upcoming two-person exhibition at the Chicago-based Rotofugi titled Night Fall, which opens December 9th, 2016. You can see more of her textile skeletons on her Facebook and Instagram. (via Hi-Fructose)
