﻿I always wanted a place that was just mine that was my things,was my art 我一直想要一个属于我的地方,充满我的收藏,我的艺术
was all the things that make me tick and make me happy 包括所有让我触动让我快乐的东西
and that's realistically what I've tried to create here in my home. 这也是我在家里努力创造的
Every single piece in this place tells a story, 这个地方的每一件作品都讲述了一个故事，
I remember where I got it, how I got it what went into it, 我记得我从哪里得到的，我是如何得到的，
so it becomes this this narrative when I walk around my apartment or when I'm showing it to different people. 当我在公寓里走来走去时，或者当我向不同的人展示它的时候，它就变成了我口中的故事
This is actually a mummified peruvian ear. 这实际上是一个秘鲁木乃伊耳朵。
This one is a very very cute and it actually looks like a taxidermied monkey 这是一只非常可爱的剥制猴子标本，
but this was one that I decided to I hate to say disembowel, 这只是我决定，呃，我很不想说“开膛”
but dissected all the organs out of and mummified myself. 但我还是把所有的器官都解剖了，并亲手把它做成了木乃伊。
This is an Egyptian cat that was preserved by the Natron salts in the desert there. 这是一只来自埃及的猫（木乃伊）,它被沙漠里被钠盐保存了下来。
I think a lot of these artifacts could be construed as weird or McCobb 很多这些作品都会被认为怪异的或者McCobb
because they are dealing with death 因为这些作品大多涉及到“死亡”
I've chosen to give them I think a different type of beauty that maybe hasn't been seen in the past 我选择给他们一种不同类型的美，可能是过去从未见过的
and beyond being cool objects, they are things that I think a VOC conversation 这些作品除了猎奇以外的，我认为它们….????
I think the oldest piece that I have in my collection right now is an greco-roman period Egyptian mummy, 我想我现在收藏的最古老的作品是希腊罗马时期的埃及木乃伊，
when I first got it into my collection. 当我刚得到它的时候，
I took everything out of the sarcophagus, 我把石棺里的东西都拿出来，
I wanted to see what was in there 想看看里面有什么
This is an exploded cat skull, 这是一个猫的博切恩头菇，
the skull ？？？？ in a medium sized domestic cat 来自一只中型家猫的头骨？
I disarticulated it and then made all the apparatus that holds each part 我把骨骼分离了并且制作了能够支撑每块骨骼的装置
I can't just leave with this stuff, 我实在是离不开这些物品
I need to know what the makeup is, 我需要知道里面细节是什么
Therefore I've gone and read down all these preparations, 因此我把这些制备方法都阅读学习了。
so I do a lot of medical preparations where I mummified the skin and the cartilage 所以我做了很多医疗制品，把皮肤和软骨做成木乃伊，
and I've done a lot of skeletonizing of different specimens 还做了很多不同标本的骨骼解剖