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Jessica Joslin combines an arts background with training in the professional trades to create her fascinating mechanical animals. Sculpted from real and replica animal bones, as well as metals, wood and altered found materials, Jessica’s sculptures are equal parts eerie and ornate.

I find Jessica’s constructions really incredible. Each sculpture is fabricated expertly, with almost no evidence of the artist’s hand. The finished products seem to exist as their own entities. Over the course of her career, Jessica has produced over 200 of these delicate works.

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The materials the artist uses vary depending on the precise nature of each work. For common animal figures, she obtains real bones through a licensed seller that offers ethically sourced specimens. For rarer animals, she sculpts replica bones, or alters the bones of easier-to-obtain animals to create a more exotic look. The contrast between the organic look of the bones and the distinctly cobbled-together mechanical charm of the rest of the object lends an antique, Victorian appearance to the sculptures.

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