Deer heads in Toronto

Hazel with Toronto’s Finest,
originally uploaded by bytepusher.

Caught a posting about this urban art experiment on blogto.com. Eight people strapped papier-mâché deer heads to their, well, heads and proceeded to walk around Kensington Market and the like.

The artistic statement behind this deer crossing was to “to address urban wildlife following the trail of development in cities.” Being someone who is interested in urban animals, I was interested to see that their are others thinking (and doing something) about this.

I do find it interesting that all the deers have antlers–making them male. All the same sex and less likely to ever be crossing together. Call it artistic licence, but having a variety of heads would have made the display a bit more true to the idea behind the display. That being said, in it’s intention to capture people’s attention and raise the issue of urban wildlife, I say good on ‘em.