News out of the KunstRAI art festival in Amsterdam this week was decidedly bizzare and more than a little disturbing. Seems artist Bart Jansen decided to honor — or desecrate depending on your point of view — the memory of his dead cat by stuffing him and making him into a flying drone of sorts. Perhaps more precisely, a radio controlled helicopter.
Apparently the cat had a little aviation history going for him as he was named Orville, after Orville Wright, one of the pioneers of manned flight. So Jansen has named his machine Orvillecopter.
Jansen says Orvillecopter is “half cat, half machine”, and part of a visual art project to pay tribute to his pet, according to as Newsky.com report.
Lets hope Jansen never gets a big dog (or any more cats for that matter).
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