Don't Quack With Liberty by Facundo Yebne | FLY
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Medium: Tiny Resin Ducks (Solid)
Dimensions: 24 x 18 in
Year: 2025
Price: $1550.00 USD
Status: available
"Dont Quack with Liberty reinterprets an iconic symbol of freedom through repetition, humor, and material transformation. Constructed from hundreds of tiny resin ducks, the work translates the image of liberty into a playful yet pointed visual statement. By using a familiar everyday object, the piece softens the monumentality of the symbol while reinforcing its cultural weight. The repetition of small units echoes the idea that freedom is built collectively, sustained by many individual actions rather than a single gesture. The work balances irony and respect. Its lighthearted surface invites accessibility and curiosity, while its underlying structure speaks to resilience, civic identity, and shared responsibility. Dont Quack with Liberty proposes that liberty remains powerful not through rigidity, but through participation, reinvention, and collective care."
Why collect this work?
A cropped Statue of Liberty is rebuilt as a red, white, and blue grid of miniature ducks, making a monumental civic image depend on comic, interchangeable parts.
- The artist profile identifies repetition and collective experience as central to FLY’s practice. Here, that approach is materially legible: numerous small units combine to produce one public symbol.
- In the photograph, jagged red contours press against a dense blue field, while white passages articulate the face, crown, and border. The close framing shifts perception between recognizable emblem and patterned surface.
- The catalogue records solid resin ducks as the medium. Their repeated rounded forms act as mosaic units, carrying the title’s pun into the physical structure rather than leaving it at the level of language.
- The work provides a focused way to consider how patriotic imagery changes when translated through novelty objects. Its humor does not erase the symbol, but exposes its dependence on repetition, participation, and shared recognition.
About the Artist
Facundo Yebne | FLY
Facundo Yebne | FLY is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: installations with Rubber Ducks. Based in Miami Beach, US.
Nationality: American
FLY’s work explores unity, resilience, and the shared emotional landscapes that bind individuals into collective narratives.
