Thursday 18 November 2021

Rabbit and Chicken Bones

It’s incredible what some people can do with their hands and their imagination. A Maltese artist uses chicken and rabbit bones to create art. It is a patient hobby that takes months to collect the bones of rabbits and chicken after they’ve been eaten, which as we know are small. So after a chicken or a rabbit has been eaten, the bones do not always go into the garbage. Maltese people eat large amounts of rabbit, which has low-cholesterol meat. Restaurants serve a variety of dishes which include stews and casseroles with both rabbit and chicken. 


John Paul Azzopardi has been doing this kind of artwork since 2006, and one of his first creations was a violin, which is seen here. The artist wants to show us that art can emanate from everywhere, even from the concept of death, and dead objects, like dead rabbits and chicken. He took part in various exhibitions, most of them in Malta, but also at the Malta pavilion in the famous Biennale of Venice, Italy. The second photo shows a bat with wings open, ready to attack, as the Wuhan bat did 2 years ago to start the Covid pandemic.

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