R o b e r t H o re n s t e i n :
ANIMALIA
director of the Harvard Museum of Natural History, wrote:
“Horenstein’s creatures are
decontextualized. They appear
without the backdrop of the
natural landscape, outside even
the artificial world of the zoo or
aquarium, and devoid of their
true color. As a consequence,
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the images are truly arresting;
and in both a literal and a metaphorical sense, we see these
animals as we have never seen
them before. We notice details,
and Horenstein focuses our
vision on the unexpected: the
foot of an elephant, the eye of
an octopus, the hair on the back
2015