Woman Gussies Up Roadkill

[Kor37 9]

Woman Gussies Up Roadkill

AP

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (May 7) - For the past several weeks, drivers near Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville have been noticing odd things about some of the roadkill on the sides of the area's highways.

 

Some of the dead possums and raccoons have been dressed in pet or human baby clothes and have had their claws painted with nail polish. The carcass of a deer has been adorned with gold paint.

 

The culprit is SIU-Edwardsville graduate art student Jessica May, 24, of West Lafayette, Ind.

 

In an interview with the Belleville News-Democrat , May said she is not an animal rights activist; she is just interested in seeing if people would give more thought to the animals if they were somehow given human attributes.

 

"I think this is my way of slowing down and paying homage to these animals," she explained. "I don't particularly find it offensive, but I understand why some people who don't understand what I'm doing could find it that way."

 

May, a 2006 graduate of Purdue University, said she takes precautions in dealing with the carcasses.

 

"I wear gloves," she said. "I don't know that I could touch it with my bare hands, because by the time I find them, they're pretty far gone."

 

 

 

[Theunicornhunter 2]

gives new meaning to the phrase "get a life"

[Gummy 0]

If ya kin put lipstick on a Pig.....

[youbroughtheryouRiker 2]

Her landlord wouldn't let her have any other kind of pet.

[trekz 7]

Well, it's a hobby and we all have hobbies, but...

 

As far as valuing animal life, I get upset when I see any roadkill, yet when it's a dog or cat, I think I feel worse. I suppose it's valuing a pet, yet it's still an animal. It's certainly weird to dress up roadkill, yet getting people to think about animal life is probably a good thing. If only more people would slow down on the roads that would be a really good thing.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named 2]

This is the best a Purdue graduate can do for a living?