RE-Imagine by Facundo Yebne | FLY Explore Mondoir Studio Medium: Mini Rubber Ducks Dimensions: 60 x 60 in Year: 2024 Price: $5500.00 USD Status: available This captivating artwork portrays the legendary John Lennon, meticulously crafted using an array of mini rubber ducks (2304 mini rubber ducks). The piece harmoniously blends pop culture with artistic innovation, capturing Lennon's iconic features through a playful medium. The use of varying duck colors and arrangements brings depth and vibrancy, making it a standout tribute to the music icon. Why collect this work?A strict grid of brightly coloured miniature forms converts a recognisable portrait into an image that shifts between individual objects and collective likeness. FLY describes repetition as a means of addressing unity and shared experience. Here, that intention is legible in the dependence of one face upon many near-identical units, while their colour differences preserve a sense of multiplicity.The photograph shows a frontal head outlined in pink, violet and pale blue against a broad black field. Saturated bands press inward from the edges, framing the portrait while making its contours appear pixelated and partially fragmented.Catalogue metadata identifies 2,304 mini rubber ducks across a 60-inch square. Their regular spacing enables tonal blocks to operate like mosaic tesserae or digital pixels, although the photograph cannot establish their exact surface, colour or physical depth.Encountered as a portrait of John Lennon, the work tests how celebrity recognition survives radical material translation. Its playful components complicate the solemnity often attached to commemorative images, making remembrance depend on assembly rather than realism. About the ArtistFacundo 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.
