Benedetto Bufalino, who is French and an artist, is known for his âvisually humorous transformations of consumable cultural objects,â designboom says. His latest project, âLa Voiture de Police Poulailler,â is a 1970s police car transformed into a chicken coop. Itâs a clever bit of upcycling, and according to Treehugger, a clever bit of punning as well:
Itâs also a bit of word play on the fact that in the francophone world, the police are sometimes colloquially referred to as âchickensâ (similar to the anglophone reference of police as âpigsâ).
The chickens donât seem empowered to arrest anyone:
But perhaps theyâre just patrolling the area for now.
