{"id":14361,"date":"2021-03-24T22:19:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T02:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=14361"},"modified":"2021-03-24T22:19:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T02:19:11","slug":"episode-427-kate-lacour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-427-kate-lacour","title":{"rendered":"Episode 427 – Kate Lacour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 427:
\nKate Lacour<\/a><\/p>\n

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“The part of taxidermy that’s meaningful to me is my personal interest in interacting with physical bodies. There’s a lot of emotional weight and personal tickle involved.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>It’s been a year since I started the COVID Check-In<\/a> series of podcasts, so I decided to return to the very first guest<\/a> in that series, artist Kate Lacour<\/a>, to celebrate! (You know what I mean.) We talk about how her life has changed over the course of a year in Pandemia, and how the urge to document those first few months gave way to other outlets. In her case, Kate rediscovered herself through taxidermy<\/a>. We get into how she taught herself the rudiments of that art through YouTube and online groups, her philosophy of animals and bodies, the question of realism vs. subjectivity, and why New Orleans is an awfully good place to make a living as a taxidermist. We go deeper into what comics mean to her and how she may return to them, the post-pandemic trip she wants to take, what progress looks like in the sequence of animals she’s preserved, and more. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read Kate’s Vivisectionary<\/a>!<\/p>\n

(And listen to my first podcast with Kate<\/a> and our COVID Check-In<\/a>!)<\/em><\/p>\n

“With the kids, I was in constant motion, so I was blessed to never have time to process those first few months.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n