"Harm" Designed By Artist Alex Pardee

“Harm” the rabbit is a three dimensional creation of one of the creatures spawned from the pen of the gifted artist Alex Pardee.

The plush itself is composed of mainly the same material, cotton. The cotton takes on completely different textures due to the treatment of the fabric and in turn present completely different visual experiences. The blue half of the plush is a smooth, velvety blue that not only looks soft to the eye, but is soft to the touch. This smooth, calming blue is contrasted by the rough appearance of the sickening green that visually has the properties of a rough brillo pad but in reality is just as soft as the smooth blue side. The matted green locks play with the light creating contrasting values resulting in a deeper and fuller appearance than its smooth blue counterpart which is mostly monotone from its flat texture.

The smooth blue represents a calm, resigned depression while the rougher green conveys anxiety and illness. Both create a tension that appears literally as ripped seams exploding with stuffing. The turmoil of the conflicting surface has brought forth the underpinnings of what lies beneath. The white stuffing is a transition between the contrasting textures and lies in between in respects to its own texture and creates a progression from one to the other.

The visual texture tricks the eye into perceiving the tactile experience as such when in fact it may be different. The illusion is one of the mind created by the artist's manipulation of the elements and isn’t realized until physically experienced. The subtle changes in texture drastically change how we interpret the colors and fabric and enable the creation to have emotion and a feeling of its own before it is ever picked up.