Some would say I have a split personality...
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“She’s nice, when she isn’t falling over” – Seasick Steve
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This is supposed to be about me, Violet, the author of this site. Except that I have no idea what to say.
The basics, then. I’m a parent (two boys) and a partner (long suffering chap with high tolerance levels). An art school design graduate, I write for fun and am halfway through a young adult novel which may or may not ever see the light of day. Surreal things happen to me on a regular basis which are usually too complicated to explain and you would probably not believe anyway (let’s just say that the quote at the top of this page is only very slightly paraphrased) and I prefer my men to look as if they’ve been recently dug up.
My favourite words are ‘curious’ and ‘sapiosexual’.
I tweet a lot ( @violetfenn) and spend a silly amount of time on Pinterest. If you’re that way inclined, you can also follow me on Tumblr.
Over the last couple of years I have been studying taxidermy and doing a few pieces myself. After one too many incidents of the kids discovering roadkill next to the ice cream we now have a little kitchen freezer purely for dead things, but I don’t get nearly enough time to have a good root around in it. Here is something I made earlier -
The first taxidermy mount I ever did. I had a LOT of help.
I have always been fascinated by the dark side of life – I was the Wednesday Addams-shaped cuckoo in our family nest when I was a kid. When people meet me they’re often confused to find that I’m not a goth, but morbid curiousity doesn’t have to present itself in obvious ways. It’s more fun to surprise people.
Violet x
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Just discovered this site and have to say it fascinates me. I had heard about these kind of photos but had never actually seen them. I think they are so interesting but my hubby and friends just think im strange.
Thanks for your interest, Wendy
It probably won’t surprise you to know that I’ve often been called strange (amongst other things!), but I prefer to think of it as being intelligently curious 
Wow! It’s so cool to “meet” some kindred souls out there. I too have always had an exquisite interest in the darker side of life, shall we say. When I was a kid, having this personality trait was, well, not easy. But as I’ve grown older, I’ve learned that being a little weird isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I am a wife and the momma of 2 kids, a boy and a girl, and they are the light of my life and the burr in my butt. My daughter shares some of my interests in all things Gothic, dark Victorian, ghostly, haunted, and vampire-like.
I do find memento mori photos sad, yet beautiful and fascinating all at once. I wonder who these people were and what caused them to die so
young. Thank you for sharing, Violet!
And thank YOU for taking the time to leave a comment! I love it when people truly ‘get’ what it is I’m doing
xxx
Do a search on Museo de Las Momias. In this mexican city the dead were interred in a cemetary. The climate preserved the dead….there was grave tax. If the family could not pay the grave tax, the corpse was removed from the cemetary on put on display in this Mexican museum, Museo de las Momias. The practice of removing the dead stopped, but the museum stayed open and people pay good money to go in and gawk at dug up mummified corpses…thought you might want to check it out…
Ooh fabulous – will go look now. Thank you!