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This affair began ages ago, this love of metal and fire, leather and bone.

As a young girl I dreamed of knights from far away kingdoms, of hapless princesses and dragons, but I was not the princess awaiting a knight in shining armour to come to her rescue, nor did I imagine myself to be brutal dragon slayer come to save the realm from the evil dragon. I was the dragon's champion, weilding my blade in his defence, seeing instead of a deamon, a much maligned and misunderstood creature of the ages, an elder who had seen centuries go by before his realm was overrun by man.

 

But alas, I was told such things were foolishness, that I had to put away such childish notions and grow up,and so reluctantly I did. Until there came a time where I was raising my own children and saw in them the same great spark of life and imagination. How could I deny them that which had been taken from me? How could I deny them the same chance to be the champion of dragons? And so, what started as a way to create costumes and accessories for myself and the boys, eventually evolved into designs you see here.

Just as every warrior requires armor of some kind, my designs have grown and evolved in order to let you explore your inner warrior with everything from classic designs, to tribal to the post apocalyptic, and as always this is all just a work in progress.

We have always had an interest in animal skulls and our work tends to turn them into abstract pieces. I(Cat) have been painting animal skulls and canvases since my early teens, but it wasn't until about a year ago that I wanted to start showcasing and selling them. Beauty and poetics is what has driven our style of work--it invites the viewer to move into a different realm. Our ultimate goal is to have the audience/buyer to speculate and see things from a different perspective.

I am funeral director and embalmer from Lancaster and I have always found beauty in skeletons and anatomical structures. Anything from pencil drawings to different forms of art and oddity displays. When I learned about diaphonization I fell in love with it. What a beautiful way to display the structures of the creature. Each animal I work on is unique and it is always a learning process to get to the finished project, weeks or up to a month later. While I am waiting for my critters to go through their long chemical process, I also like to do mosaic tile work on different animal skulls I acquire.

We are a match made in.....we are complete opposites. However being on the opposite sides of the spectrum in nearly every subject there could ever be, is what ultimately brought us together. We love that we are so different because we strive off of each other in everything we do and show each other worlds we've never would have known otherwise. Our art displays just that as well. Nikkie brings beauty and love and majesty to our artistic combinations while I show up with skulls, bones and anything out of the norm. When we combine that beauty and macabre together, you get what we have been calling "morally questionable art". We love honoring the passing of an animal by turning what is left into something that could be valued forever rather than just...gone. From painting, to etch burning, preserving, and a variety of other techniques our goal is to provide one of a kind products that are filled with question, conversation, wonder, beauty, death and life.

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