Recent acquisitions - the chicken is made out of plastic bags. Which reminds me of some art works I saw at the Joburg Art Fair a few months back - collages/paintings/bas reliefs made entirely out of melted plastic - apparently the artist, Mbongeni Richman-Buthelezi, couldn't afford paint when he started to create art, so instead he collected discarded plastic bags and melted them with a cigarette lighter - see his web site at http://www.plastic-arts.net/ to get a sense of how surprisingly effective this is - though you have to see the originals up close to understand how difficult it must be to work with this medium.
The elephant isn't South African - it is of course a model of Elmer the Patchwork Elephant invented by David McKee, found oddly enough in a souvenir shop in Brittany.
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