Louise Weaver’s Crocheted Budgies Wear Fabulous Camouflage

I think pom poms are coming back (because I just saw a cool looking DIY on Pinterest). Or are they already back? Probably the latter, because Australian-based artist Louise Weaver was putting them on fake birds years ago (around 2009).

Like Karley Feaver’s assemblage taxidermied birds, Weaver adds adornment to the stuffed budgies. She crochets rainbow-colored coats and adds sequins to their plumage. She talks with  about the ideas behind the work, which primarily centers around transformation. Not just physically, but through mimicry and taking on the aspects of what’s around it. Camouflage, however fabulous it may be.