Tanya Marcuse: Deer
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Ritualistic yet unflinching, Marcuse's photographs transmogrify a dead deer's body into a portal from the terrestrial to the celestial
Published with ROMAN NVMERALS.
From September 2023 to April 2025, photographer Tanya Marcuse (born 1964) documented the slowly decaying corpse of a deer in the woods. Through her various subtle interventions including the use of fire, these images transform from a chronicle of decomposition to a metaphysical reabsorption into the universe.
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