Perched atop a rooftop down on Oretha Haley Castle Boulevard in Central City New Orleans, five large bunny-man sculptures, made from plaster-molds of artist Alex Podesta’s own body parts, gaze over the street.

These self-portrait pieces combine the visual of his own bearded face with the life-size body of a fluffy white bunny rabbit. Podesta, animating himself through the personification of a large, stuffed animal-like figure, incorporates his own self-being into these portraits, detaching his sculptures from the reality and seriousness of everyday life (conveying the ultimate importance and need for more public and local art displays).