Rimi Dudhia- Animal Cruelty

I explored the topic of animal cruelty, specifically how it affects rabbits, which is my chosen animal for this project. Animal cruelty is a big problem we face to this day where we see animals being harmed and experimented on for consumer products such as makeup products and household cleaning products. Rabbits are the most used animals for testing as they are the most gentle and well behaved animals.

I had decided to incorporate this topic of animal cruelty with rabbits into my final piece. My final piece of artwork is simple, yet portrays a clear storyline of how easily rabbits are abused for experiments. The blue background towards the outside draws attention to the actual topic going on in my piece. The rabbit quickly goes from a healthy state to an unhealthy state as it is experimented on.

Kirsten Randall

I chose to look into the domestication of bunnies, and how they went from the common wild breed to the many domestic breeds through selective breeding. I also looked at the sequence within a rabbit's binky, a jumping instinct in common with all the breeds. For my final piece I illustrated the timeline of rabbit domestication in the form of a binky as an animated gif.