Artist Maskull Lasserre uses purchased souvenir sculptures as the foundation for his artwork. In a process he refers to as “re-carving,” Lasserre removes parts of the original sculpture to reveal the intricate skeletal structures.

Lasserre is known for his incredible ability to carve anatomical forms of animals, people, insects and other forms. He discussed the intent behind his work: When the remnants of life are imposed on an object, and that’s true especially with the carving work that he does, it infers a past history or a previous life that had been lived. Despite the fact that the life has ended, at least that life had a beginning and middle as well, so often by imparting these bodily elements to inanimate objects it reclaims or reanimates them in a virtual way.

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