Cris Rose's Bellicose-End Bunny for tonight's Nathan Hamill x Toy Art Gallery "Bellicosity" show!

Cris Rose's "Bellicose-End Bunny," based of the Nathan Hamill rabbit platform, is for tonight's "Bellicosity" group custom show at the Toy Art Gallery. While I could rave about how amazing looking this piece is, I fear that words don't quite do it justice. Luckily for me, Rose has a backstory for this character that he'd like to share:

The Bellicose-End Bunny was a personal project undertaken by an irritated engineer with too much time on his hands.
Constantly aggravated by the trivial bickering of his neighbours, family, co-workers and peers, he set about creating a little robot bunny that few would pay attention to.
Hopping around around in a stunted, clunky manner, only the very observant would realise that this was nothing more than an act; that underneath the facade of a child's plaything, a level of analytic sophistication was keenly at work, scoping out it's target in detail without receiving so much as a second glance.
With incredible speed and dexterity, a raygun almost as big as itself would be folded seemingly out of nothing and pointed in the direction of the insufferable quarrel. A silent burst of blue-orange light would gently drape itself upon the now stunned individuals without so much as a twitch of understanding.
Slowly the realisation would dawn upon them that they could hear the thoughts of the other, their concerns and issues had become their own and that the problems that had been so poignant, moments before, appeared as pithy and without form as a discarded napkin.
Few would notice the slow and clumsy exit made by the small robotic rabbit, but whatever bellicose has previously existed between the parties, was no more.

The artists listed on the flyer are: A Little Stranger, Ardabus Rubber, Ayleen Gaspar, Mikie Graham of Blamo!, Bob Conge aka Plaseebo, Brandon Griffith, Brent Nolasco, Carson Catlin, Cris Rose, D-Lux, George Gaspar, Gris Grimly, J★RYU, Jeremiah Ketner, Jermaine Rogers, JESTER, Jon-Paul Kaiser, Josh Mayhem, Julie B., Julie West, KMNDZ, Lash, Leecifer, Luke Chueh, Martin Hsu, Miss Mindy, Nebulon5, Okedoki, OsiRisORion, Peap, Ragnar, Rohby, Rsin, Scott Tolleson, John "Spanky" Stokes, Steve Talkowski, Southerndrawl, TaskOne, Todd Robertson, Tomi Monstre, Touma, Toybot Studios, and valleyDweller. Though not listed on the flyer, we've heard that Chauskoskis, Shojono Tomo, and Voltaire will be in the show as well.

"Bellicosity: The Bellicose Bunny Group Custom Show" will open on March 23rd and run through April 6th at the Toy Art Gallery (TAG), 7571 Melrose Ave. (corner of Melrose & Curson) Los Angeles, CA, 90046.