First you shave him of all his fur to make a pretty sweater out of it, then you cut him up and eat up all his flesh, and finally you make a lampshade out of his stomach. Sounds familiar? Those are the three uses of a sheep and if the third does not seem familiar to you, apart from being slightly repulsive, then let UK-based artist Julia Lohmann explain. Lohmann insists a sheep stomach should not be considered disgusting when we already wear its fur and eat its flesh. And to stress on this point, she has gone ahead and made lampshades out of sheep stomach.

Making the lampshade takes some time, since the stomach has to be cleansed of excess flesh and whatever else resides there and after a week of preservation, the stomach is made to take a bulbous shape by inserting a balloon into it and leaving it to dry for another week. And voila! The sheepskin lampshade is ready. Lohmann insists it is illogical to view the innards of a sheep as disgusting and wishes to humans to think about the relationship between them and animals beyond consumption. But I can’t help but be reminded of the ‘skin lampshades’ that had been popular during the Nazi regime.

Via: ImpactLab