{"id":20977,"date":"2014-06-24T06:22:53","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T11:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=20977"},"modified":"2014-06-11T14:04:55","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T19:04:55","slug":"canary-suicides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=20977","title":{"rendered":"Canary Suicides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/canarysuicide-e1401369151782-94x150.jpg\" alt=\"Canary Suicide\" width=\"94\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/canarysuicides.com\/\">Canary Suicides<\/a> (a.k.a. &#8220;Tiny Demises&#8221;) are a series of assemblage pieces by artist\/taxidermist Catherine Coan.  They&#8217;re macabre little dioramas featuring suicidal canaries, and each contains &#8220;money, a suicide note, a pet owned by the resident canary, and unique surprises.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re marvelously detailed, with loads of miniatures setting the scene, each housed in a vintage-y birdcage which complements the interior.  (The canaries, incidentally, while real, are birds which have died of natural causes, obtained from a reliable breeder.)  One of my favorites is <a href=\"http:\/\/canarysuicides.com\/2011\/11\/contact\/\">Contact<\/a>, which tells a whole story with just a few details.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few pieces in the gallery still for sale, and she also does commissions.  There&#8217;s no mention of pricing, so I have no idea how much of a splurge a dead canary of your very own might be.<\/p>\n<p>Coan also has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Canary-Suicides\/160374480677795?ref=hl\">Facebook page<\/a> where she shares lots of amusing stuff, including some of her non-canary taxidermy.  I adore her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/160374480677795\/photos\/a.182998771748699.40467.160374480677795\/614624808586091\/?type=1&#038;theater\">You Are Unique in All the World<\/a> hyrax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canary Suicides (a.k.a. &#8220;Tiny Demises&#8221;) are a series of assemblage pieces by artist\/taxidermist Catherine Coan. They&#8217;re macabre little dioramas featuring suicidal canaries, and each contains &#8220;money, a suicide note, a pet owned by the resident canary, and unique surprises.&#8221; They&#8217;re marvelously detailed, with loads of miniatures setting the scene, each housed in a vintage-y [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-needful-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20977"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21905,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20977\/revisions\/21905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}