The concept, according to Calgary artist Jeff de Boer, is nothing new. There is, for example, Medieval imagery of mice and cats wearing suits of armour. “You can find an episode in Bugs Bunny where there’s a museum where they have all this animal armour.” The notion has been around for a long time. “What no one’s ever done,” said Mr. de Boer, “is actually make a suit of armour for a mouse.”
Calgary artist Jeff de Boer inspects one of his mouse suit of armour, a hybrid Indian-Polish-themed mouse with features from Maratha armour and the distinctive wings of the Polish Hussars, in his backyard studio in Calgary, on Jan. 28.Leah Hennel/The Globe and Mail
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