We love plush toys, in fact Ce Ce sees a line of stuffed animals somewhere in her design future. We can’t help but say “awe, so cute” about Matt Campbell’s art, but we get it that’s not his message.   Campbell has taken these stuffed animals “wrenched out of the blue (the natural living world) and thrown into the black (the artificial or “dead” world that we create)” to display his views on the affects of pollution.

We agree with Mocoloco‘s statement , “this work is symbolic of our relationship with nature: we claim to love it, but we sure do mess around with it as well.”

Check out Campbell’s work at the show Out of the Black which opens tomorrow at Gallery Hana Hou in New York.    If you can’t make it to the show check out the artist’s website for more information on the project.