{"id":86,"date":"2008-11-29T16:02:51","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T00:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.eciad.ca\/justinnovak\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2026-02-01T21:58:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:58:36","slug":"21st-century-bunny","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/justinnovak\/archive\/21st-century-bunny\/","title":{"rendered":"21st Century Bunny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-363\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2025\/04\/\/Freedom-Hurts-2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"606\" height=\"606\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>With his all-encompassing\u00a0peripheral vision, 21st Century Bunny is vigilant.<br \/>\nAt all times.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>Exhausted by endless self-generated\u00a0fear, 21st Century Bunny has armed himself.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>He\u2019s become a danger now, to everyone and everything.<br \/>\nBut all he\u2019s ever wanted is to protect his vulnerable way of life.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>21st Century Bunny (First Generation) 2006<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>21st Century Bunny<\/em> is a character designed in response to living in an\u00a0age of\u00a0hyper-vigilance. Watched and watchful,\u00a0having reached\u00a0next-level paranoia, he\u2019ll shoot at any\u00a0sudden movement and any unfamiliar sound. Needless to say, he\u2019s become a danger to others: an unwitting predator.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18\" src=\"http:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/justinnovak\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2025\/04\/21cbs-with-glock-uzi-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"588\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/justinnovak\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2025\/04\/21cbs-with-glock-uzi-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/justinnovak\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2025\/04\/21cbs-with-glock-uzi.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-44\" src=\"http:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/justinnovak\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2025\/04\/21cb-bunny-collection-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"589\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/justinnovak\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2025\/04\/21cb-bunny-collection-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/justinnovak\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2025\/04\/21cb-bunny-collection.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>21st Century Bunny (Second Generation) 2007<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Originally created as a reflection on the Post-9-11 Bush\/Cheney era, the <em>21st Century Bunny<\/em> fable\u00a0continues\u00a0 to\u00a0serve perhaps as a broader allegory. It&#8217;s a cautionary tale, intended to highlight the pathological nature of violent behaviour, regardless of how it might be justified by perceived threats or sanctioned by institutions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-372\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2025\/04\/\/porcelain-bunny-with-woodfired-glock-2-782x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"303\" height=\"396\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-429\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2025\/04\/\/21c-bunny-with-youngun-745x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"396\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-432\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2025\/04\/\/911-Bunnies-1024x772.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"376\" height=\"283\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-427\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2025\/04\/\/FH-Bunny-760x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"283\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2025\/04\/\/21st-c-Bunny-Delftware-Model-Left-Side.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-373 \" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2025\/04\/\/21st-c-Bunny-Delftware-Model-Left-Side-718x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"587\" height=\"838\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>21st Century Bunny<\/em> was originally\u00a0conceived and developed in Sk\u00e6lsk\u00f8r, Denmark, with the generous support of the International Ceramic Research Center at Guldagergaard (where the first two\u00a0<em>Generations<\/em> of porcelain <em>21cB<\/em> figurines were produced during the Summers of 2006 and 2007).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-431\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2025\/04\/\/21st-c-Bunny-Baum-Installation-1024x801.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"371\" height=\"290\" \/><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2025\/04\/\/Black-21c-Bunny-in-Baum-Installation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-430\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2025\/04\/\/Black-21c-Bunny-in-Baum-Installation-750x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"291\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>21st Century Bunny (Third Generation) 2008<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">In 2008, a\u00a0<em>Third Generation<\/em> of 21st Century Bunny figurines were created at the Arabia Factory in Helsinki, Finland,\u00a0thanks to the generous support of the <em>Arabia Art Department Society<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With his all-encompassing\u00a0peripheral vision, 21st Century Bunny is vigilant. At all times. Exhausted by endless self-generated\u00a0fear, 21st Century Bunny has armed himself. He\u2019s become a danger now, to everyone and everything. But all he\u2019s ever wanted is to protect his vulnerable way of life. 21st Century Bunny (First Generation) 2006 21st Century Bunny is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"parent":85,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-86","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/justinnovak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/justinnovak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/justinnovak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/justinnovak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/justinnovak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/justinnovak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/justinnovak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86\/revisions\/461"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/justinnovak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/justinnovak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}