Ethel is a big bird and part of Austyn's Happy Team. A standing blue bird sculpture with thumbprint texture!
These pieces become your family once you bring them into your space and act as a beacon of goodwill, good luck and people's innate goodness shining through. At the same time the works aren't wimps, each stands to defend your home if Beetlejuice were ever to bring them to life!
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"Hands down the lesson for me, as an artist, has been faith in absurdity. Everything with a grain of salt, everything with friendly spirit, strengthening one's humor has never been more critical for survival! Bigger, simpler, happier! My focus on this series has been unconditional love, optimism and faith in humanity to self-educate and do the right thing.
I would use ‘totems’ or ‘haniwa’ figures–I don't want to sound ‘fruity/witchy’ but would like to communicate that the sculptures I make do function to carry spiritual weight when you live with them, and they act to channel psycho-spiritual energies.
The point of me making them is that they act as conduits for unresolved existential human/animal drama." ~ Austyn Taylor