“It cheers us up”

Dr Farvardin Daliri, an academic and artist, has spent his lock-down time making this 750kg sculpture of a laughing kookaburra.

Born in Iran, he has lived in Townsville for 25 years.”It’s a work of love,” he says.“This is the common ground – the land and habitat, owned by Indigenous people for thousands of years. That’s what it is. In this land, birds laugh at us.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/27/people-adore-it-australian-man-spends-lockdown-building-giant-kookaburra?