Design
London Gets Flooded With Eerie, Disembodied Chickens
No, there's not a serial killer targeting poultry.
Gruesome, poultry-based crime scenes have popped up around London. Pale, wrinkled claws stick up from the cold ground and poke out from behind grates—is the city being stalked by a Jack the Defeatherer?
The unsettling displays are actually the work of Brooklyn's Dan Witz, a veteran street artist who excels at making it seem like animals are lurking everywhere in public architecture. While Witz's previous illusions have played around with two dimensions, for this new one he's sculpted painted-resin chicken feet to plant around London like little visual bombs. The fowl endeavor fits right in with the mission of his life's work: "to stop people in their tracks and make them go, 'WTF?!!?'"