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The first time I had seen Taxidermy was at the Grand Rapids
Museum. I was around seven or eight years old and I can still
remember standing at the glass windows studying all those
animals, each in their own habitat diorama.
I had a wanting, a
longing to know how the Taxidermist made them look so alive,
so realistic.
It would be twenty
years before I actually mounted my first animal. But, believe
me, when I put the finishing details on that first animal,
I new that this is what I wanted to do with my life. I wanted
to create art with animals. Capture a moment in time and display
it in all of the grace and elegance the animal possessed in
life.
Today, as President
of Wildlife Design Inc. it is my desire to capture the attention
of each client through the artistic expressions displayed
in our mounts so when they have them in their homes, they
too, will feel the way I did on my first visit to the Grand
Rapids Museum.
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