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\"\"<\/a>Children are posing near Damien Hirst\u2019s large intestine. A young couple is engaged in a shoulder rub, the recipient with a bracing hand on what may be the sigmoid colon. Upstairs, caterers put flowers on round tables, and cameramen survey Tate-goers ignoring For the Love of God<\/em> encased below in a black box. In the gift shop, The Incomplete Truth<\/em> anamorphic cup and saucer is on sale for \u00a32.50.<\/p>\n

Between the Tate and Emily Mayer\u2019s Norfolk studio is a gap of British countryside that from a train car feels like an hour-and-a-half stretch of live cows. I sit down and immediately hear that Emily hates instant coffee and loves rats. The Norfolk Wildlife Trust celebrates the area\u2019s presence of weasels and more unusual species, but Emily prefers dogs to Chinese water deer. She has several dogs, some animate, some either frozen or cast in resin.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe electricity board are coming at 8 A.M. tomorrow to cut trees,\u201d she had written in an e-mail the night before, \u201cand our power will be off all day. I do have a generator in our woodland cabin, so maybe I could drag that in.\u201d It turns out that the water is out with the power, and the phones don\u2019t work. We still manage to have coffee.<\/p>\n

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One obviously lonely tool in the studio is the cast of a cow\u2019s head lying on the floor in a corner. There is no indication as to whether it once housed the rotting head commissioned by Damien Hirst for A Thousand Years<\/em>, but it\u2019s about the right size. A Scottish terrier mold has a more glorified place in the studio, on a front table.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

With a rolled smoke in one hand and a coffee with raw milk in the other hand, Emily surveys her studio. \u201cIt\u2019s really hard getting a hold of dead dogs. Years ago, I\u2019d go to my vet and he\u2019d say, you know, Help yourself, but now they all have to go to the incinerator.\u201d A couple dogs are positioned upside down to indicate that they\u2019re not sleeping. \u201cI could understand a vet or anyone else doesn\u2019t want the dog to appear later as an artwork. It would be very upsetting for the owner to come across years later.\u201d<\/p>\n

The studio is a lattice of intersecting patterns, ten or so drills in a row hanging on the wall; twenty panes making a grid in the window; twenty-six skulls lined up on two shelves; bolts; repeated circles of coiled copper and other wire. The studio is divided in half by a steel ceiling beam that supported the old granary upstairs. A chaos of screws, feathers, wenches, hooks and squeeze tubes of glossy red liquid align as repeating, organized shapes in the darkness. The collections are not unlike the rows of surgical tools and shelves of anatomy models that make up Invasion<\/em> and Trinity\u2014Pharmacology, Physiology, Pathology<\/em> at the Hirst retrospective in London.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Emily walks over to The Dog\u2019s Bollocks<\/em>, a sculpture made of glass, ceramic, plastic, epoxy resin, hair, and \u201cspecimens in spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m trying to do rats in more challenging positions. Not just dead rats. I think the rat, as an animal, is a hero.\u00a0Because it\u2019s not only survived, it\u2019s also used in laboratories for testing. It\u2019s an essential part of human life. People sort of can\u2019t bear them.\u201d The rat of resin and hair in the terrarium is clutching a large vial. At its feet are smaller vials, one that contains a harvest mouse and one a fetal rabbit. In the big jar, \u201cwell, that\u2019s a dog\u2019s bollocks.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe budgerigar I had in a jar until I was about ten or so. I used to pickle things. People always think of Damien and pickling. I don\u2019t have quite the ambitions of getting a shark, though.\u201d<\/p>\n

The hero of Bollocks<\/em> is presiding over his collection, looking as Carl Linnaeus, the Swedish botanist, must have looked gazing at the taxidermic remains of the seven-headed hydra he debunked in Hamburg. In another of Mayer\u2019s pieces, rats are frozen mid-climb on the elbow of a table lamp shining on one of her bird sculptures. They are positioned on top of the lamp arm or perched to look at her own sculpture from its base.<\/p>\n

Emily talks easily over the sound of electric saws. Her earrings swing; they are miniature cleavers on hooks. \u201cI don\u2019t have any desire to do rare or different or exciting animals. Rats and dogs are so much a part of the human condition. We invest so much emotion in both of those animals.\u201d<\/p>\n

She glances again at the lamp. \u201cI also was born in the year of the rat.\u201d\u00a0Damien Hirst is the year of the snake.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Photos by Ingrid Lindquist<\/em><\/p>\n

Daisy Atterbury writes and translates from Paris, and she directs a summer school of poetics outside of Santa Fe, NM.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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