Voyager 2002
In 2002 I went to visit the Whanganui Museum, and was invited to see what their storage area held. One of the specimens in their collection was a monkey that had apparently originally arrived as a skin and been treated by a taxidermist who had never seen what the monkey that the skin belonged to actually looked like. The eyes are not right for a start.
This was an era when museums swapped material. Museums here swapped items such as moa bones and stuffed Kiwi.
I made a work based on the monkey which I called Voyager. Can't remember exactly why. One thing that I did at the time was to have about 1000 badges made, and eventually over a year or two they were all given away.
