Baboonz® — Art Toy & Collectible System.

Baboonz is a contemporary art toy inspired by the ancient Egyptian connection between the baboon and Thoth, the god of wisdom, knowledge, and writing.

The project reinterprets this ancient symbolism through a contemporary collectible design language, positioning Baboonz between character design, contemporary art, fashion, and product design.

The collection includes the sculpture, a premium satin-finish packaging system, and a TCG-inspired collectible card with metallic and holographic details, creating a cohesive physical identity and expanding the character’s lore.

The goal was to make Baboonz feel museum-able — a modern collectible art object that connects ancient artifacts with the way we collect and experience objects today. Check the project here. (App Flora Canvas) Check the original art | Met Museum (Figure of Baboon)

Check the process and how to made it here.

My piece is inspired by the Damascus Room at the Met: a winter guest room built in 1707 in Ottoman Damascus, carved from poplar wood and covered in gesso relief, gold leaf and forty stanzas of poetry. It was removed from its house in the early 1930s, shipped to New York in 1934, and sat in crates for about forty years before being installed at the Met. I retold its whole life as a 30 second animated film in the style of the art of its own era, an Ottoman miniature manuscript, ending with the visitors who stand in it today. The narrator quotes a real line from the room's walls. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/452102