Nancy: ‘I take photos of squirrels’
And he did. Nancy fired off shot after shot as the squirrel’s little paw swept across the envelope, creating an anthropomorphic illusion.
It can take a lot of trial and error, as when Nancy made a papier-mâché school bus.
“What I really wanted was the squirrel standing by the door of the school bus, like a child waiting for the bus, or in the driver’s seat, like a bus driver,” she said. “But the squirrel kept going through the front window or out the side window.”
A defenestrated squirrel would not be attractive.
“I realised I had to block the windows with stiff clear plastic so the only way into the bus would be through the door,” Nancy said. Why squirrels in the first place? “I guess it’s sort of the cuteness factor,” said Nancy, 63. “If you look at the internet, people are all about baby rabbits and children, anything cute and baby-like and fuzzy.”
Occasionally, curious chipmunks – members of the squirrel family – stop by, but they don’t
Occasionally, curious chipmunks -members of the squirrel family -- stop by, but they don’t really serve Nancy’s purpose. ‘They don’t stand on their hind legs’
really serve Nancy’s purpose.
“They don’t stand on their hind legs,” she said.
“They don’t people.”
Nancy and her husband have just moved to a suburb on the other side of Halifax to be closer to their look like little new grandson. Are there squirrels? “There are a couple of big trees in the back yard and there was a squirrel on each bird feeder when we visited,” Nancy said.
Plenty of material to work with. – Washington Post