Zhi Kai Vanderford | chaco iwase

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/zoomanity/id1811402581

kai the hyena is incarcerated in a zoo, inspired by zhi kai’s zoomanity series:

ZOO MAN-ITY

Zhi Kai Vanderford

3 x 24.5 / 18 x 30 framed

Pencil and pens

Zoo-Manity is a drawing of a male prisoner that represents the sheer number of males incarcerated and ending up as examples they don’t want their kids to model.

ZOOMANITY

Cardboard, acrylic paint, pencil, pen, yarn odds & ends, floss, tape

Zhi Kai Vanderford

Zoo-Ma-nity is a 3D piece that represents the women prisoners, which are a smaller percentage, but perhaps more heavily impacted as primary caregivers or single mothers that literally lose their world when they lose their kid.