Something as simple as a pink flamingo adorning someone’s lawn in a dry desert climate devoid of marsh not only speaks to the person’s psychological need to connect with a landscape that is not their present but a suspension of disbelief in thinking that such creatures would want to live on this person’s lawn. These plastic pink birds are kitsch, and it is precisely this reason that I like to think of them as an unofficial mascot of Las Vegas, a thriving metropolis that was built in an area that did not even have a natural water source before the Hoover Dams creation.

Materials:

Cast Aluminum, Forged Steel, Casting Plastic, Paint, Pigment

Size (in Feet): Height 5.5’, Length 4’, Width 2’.

2018