rather gristly but interesting: making maps of france
Cuddly toys, ripped to pieces. Their limbs and tails, snouts and eyepatches strung up and nailed to a museum wall. Teddy bears and their furry friends are supposed to be a child’s last line of defence against night terrors. But here, perversely, they themselves become the terror: cruelly chopped up and grotesquely rearranged into a nightmarish tableau.But this is more than a grisly trophy wall. The chaotic collage of cheerful colours and big childlike eyes and grins is arranged in a familiar, hexagonal shape: the contours of France. The westernmost tip of Brittany is marked by what looks like a pair of ears, or perhaps wings � blue in any case. A dolphin’s tail helps flesh out part of the Pyrenees border with Spain. The Alsatian border with Germany is shaped by bear’s legs, and one baby doll leg the companion of which dangles from the southern coast of Brittany. The country’s body is bulking with paws and arms and legs and heads…
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