Squirrel Ballet - 9 June 2013

This is the squirrel on top of the fingerpost at Whiteley Shopping Centre. The Southerner quite rightly commented on Flickr that it looks a bit like a mouse. I chose different angles to decide for myself and to allow you to do so also. I imagine this is a Lucy Casson figure as are the other animals around the Centre and I feel Ms. Casson intentionally leaves a little ambiguity in her work. The figures we comfortably describe as rabbits, have the ears of hares but the works she has created are intended to reflect the wildlife of the area and I think one is more likely to see a rabbit than a hare.