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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

To add more context, the artist's name is Thomas Deininger he actually makes these sculptures out of trash he finds and is given (not only toys). He says it's in response to treating the planet as a place to dump our garbage and the general decline of the biodiversity on earth along with the extinction of it's species as a direct result of climate change and habitat loss. So anyways, while it's cool looking it definitely has darker message.

https://mymodernmet.com/thomas-deininger-bird-sculptures-perspective/

Among the birds depicted in Deininger's work are a wild maccaw, endangered due to deforestation and poaching; the Carolina parakeet, hunted to extinction following an initial habitat loss; and the Ivory-billed woodpecker, native to the coniferous forests of the Southern United States and Cuba that has been listed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as extinct since September 2021. While all of these birds have different appearances, colors, and textures, the artist has found a way to truthfully represent them thanks to his keen sense of observation.

[โ€“] kersploosh 1 points 12 hours ago

Thank you for the additional context! That's really interesting, though depressing.