Quokka and Baby by Bordallo II

"Artur Bordalo known as Bordalo II is a Lisbon born artist who has created artworks across the globe, his most recent unveiling a quokka in the Piazza.

It is a part of his series “Big Trash Animals”— artworks which use recycled, found and second-hand materials to create portraits of animals.

“It’s always about making portraits of the animals,” Bordalo II said.

“I mean, the victims of those materials that are destroying their habitats; the contamination, the pollution, the waste, we use the waste which destroys them or their habitats to make their portraits.”