We Often Have Foxes In The Garden,

and many of us have seen them around town,

  as indeed do residents of Rotterdam’s Bospolder-Tussendijken, who frequently spot bushy-tailed foxes roaming their streets at night, all images by frank hanswijk,

 and now, Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman has given the carnivorous animal a permanent home in the area,

 He recently installed a massive “Bospolder Fox” that peers over a busy intersection in the neighborhood. Spanning 16 meters, the fox holds a pink bag in its mouth, a gesture that anthropomorphizes the wild animal, as Hofman asks, “Has the Bospolder Fox stolen something? Is he clearing up litter? Or has he just returned from a shopping spree on the market?”

 it also serves as a reminder to residents to be welcoming, although many “have developed a certain fondness for the feral intruders,” the artist said in a statement, 

“The nocturnal creature on velvet paws does not belong in a neat little park but sneaks through the shadowy crevices of the city,” Hofman said, to see and read more about the Bospolder Fox head on over to designboom, for the full story.