Artist Kikuko Tanaka and her "Tragic Bambi" (RHM Foundation)

Artists. Always waving their hot glue guns willy-nilly, scalding everyone who gets in the way of their bedazzled severed deer head. At least that's what apparently happened to one spectator during artist Kikuko Tanaka's performance art piece at a Chelsea gallery last year, and now she's suing the artist and the gallery.

Tanaka's performance at the Arario Gallery last year, called, naturally, "Tragic Bambi," involved gluing fake pearls onto a severed deer head. Shouldn't be a big deal, right? Happens all the time. But audience member Gabriel Don says she was hit by boiling hot glue and suffered second and third degree burns on her wrist, in addition to being traumatized, according to her lawyer Ruth Bernstein. "At first [Don] thought it was intentional, but it appears this was a performance piece production gone wrong," added Bernstein.

Apparently Tanaka did invite spectators to participate in the pearl-decorating of the deer head, but she may have been "startled" and turned around suddenly, sending the hot glue flying. Don is suing both the gallery and the artist for negligence.