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48“There’s breathing sounds by the lioness that you have tohave the curator turn on for you, both the breathing soundsand movement, to hear and see the lion. The breathing sounds were produced by DWB, because I once went to the Bronx Zoo with a microphone and asked him to record the sounds of his breathing lions, and the curator there thought I was crazy. And he said, ‘Why don’t you just do it yourself? You can mimic the motions of the lion.’ Which is what I did, because the lion’s artist couldn’t make it work so that there was a synchronization between the movement and the sounds naturally.”the collection“Your philosophy to share these whimsical or more profound delights with the largest number of people is very much akin to what a museum should do. One should not be afraid of artor the creativity of the artist!”—Paul Perrot, Director, Santa Barbara Museum of ArtGunter weSeler“Dreamers of Decadence” was purchased in June 1978 from the Electric Gallery in Toronto, Canada. When bringing the lioness from Canada into the United States the art piece was seized by U.S. Customs as a violation of the Endangered Species Act. After proving it was an African lioness, not an Indian lioness—and therefore not an endangered species— and that she was born, lived and died in a zoo in Amsterdam, the piece was released by Customs.