This is my submission for the Ami collective Bare exhibition. They created 100 of these guys and gave them to artists and designers to decorate. The exhibition will hopefully travel, before the Bares are auctioned off. All proceeds from the auction go to child welfare.

Check out the website at http://bare.amicollective.com/

There’s some amazing work on display.

Why pandas are black and white
A Chinese legend

In the days before animals stopped talking to humans, pandas used to be entirely white. The pandas were friends with a young shepherd girl, who always brought her flock to graze near the bamboo forest. One day a huge leopard came out of the forest, and tried to eat one of the panda cubs. The girl stopped the leopard from eating the cub, but she was killed. The pandas came to the funeral, and to show mourning, they rubbed black ash on their arms to make a black band. As they cried, they rubbed their eyes and ears and hugged each other, spreading the ash. They still wear these markings today out of respect for the girl who died so that one of their kind could live.