Walton Ford, Sensations of an Infant Heart, 1999, detail
I did an Apprenticeship with Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in 2010. One day we were invited to the press release of Walton Ford's Exhibition. He was there himself, humble and humorous - explaining all the true stories behind his works.
The work above originates from a story about John James Audubon whose parrot was strangled by his stepmother's pet monkey.
I was "sold" by his extreme talent and the weirdness of the stories and promptly went to the Taschen Book Store in Copenhagen to buy a signed copy of Taschen's book on Walton Ford called Pancha Tantra. He is now one of my favourite artists.
PBS made a documentary on Walton Ford which is worth watching.
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