Nothing says Easter like a cute rabbit made out of chocolate, sometimes even filled with even awesomer things like chocolate or fake marshmallow. That’s good shit. But how about bucking the trend this year and giving your kids the gift of a rabbit made out of vacuum lint, and the old scab you peeled off of your leg five weeks ago?

Yes, thanks to one insane artist, you can now own your very own personal Dust Bunny. A small hand made rabbit, created with all the old nastiness you’d find lying in the dark reaches underneath your couch. Sounds like a winner to me.

So how insane is this lady?

“The original impulse for Dust Bunnies was a humorous one, thinking about how dust bunnies seemed to invade my house and multiply just as wild rabbits were infesting the neighborhood, eating my newly-planted annuals in early spring,” explains Proulx.  “As I worked on the rabbits, they started to take on a different meaning.  As I sewed pieces of lint and balls of dust onto them, I become like a household forensic scientist, noticing bits and pieces of detritus that mark events in our house and the passing of time.”

Pretty insane.

I can see where she’s coming from I guess, but just the idea that these rabbits are made out of the nastiness that is giant lumps of dust and old skin…I can barely think of it without gagging. Not even to mention how many dust mites and other microscopic terror are now embedded into a bunny that looks like rigor mortis would have been the pleasant part of it’s life.

Happy Easter!

http://www.greenmuze.com/art/artists/1013-recycled-dust-bunnies.html