The rabbit was Ida’s first adult sewing sculpture, so it was to some extent an experiment, at the beginning of the work Ida did not have a ready-made idea for the sculpture, she did not know what the rehearsal would bring, the final shape and meaning came together during the work. The rabbit crying a stream of bloody tears from buttons has become a universal statement about sensibility, on the one hand a sensibility blunted by the commonness and scale on which rabbits are used for experimental purposes, a commonness that can be explained away by their proverbial potency, while the circulating buttons only highlight a disregard for what is easily replaceable and cheap to produce. Finally, it is a work of heightened sensitivity, of keen senses, of big ears that are able to hear danger and mobilise leaps for impossible escape. The rabbit cries because it has a big heart.

Paweł Brylski