extinct birds previously consumed by humans, 2008

Not all fast food chicken dies in vain. The bones of some hundreds fall into the hands of Christy Rupp who fashions them into exquisite skeletons of their extinct or endangered kin, based on models, themselves works of the imagination, remade by paleontologists. Her witty collages also provoke me, an unregenerate carnivore, to never eat birds that have not lived decent lives.

—Bell Chevigny, author, poet and activist

Download Christy’s “Thoughts on Evolution: Is It for Everybody?”

Read the press release from the 2008 solo exhibition of Extinct Birds.

All pieces are mixed media and fast food poultry bones, 2004–2007.