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Blinky the Friendly Hen
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Dan Carino
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Jun 7, 2008
Blinky the Friendly Hen
Meet Blinky the Friendly Hen, a dead, headless, buried and exhumed grocery store chicken. Blinky started as an art joke thirty years ago by a Cal State Northridge art student Jeffrey Vallance.
A page from Jeffrey Vallance's book about "Blinky, the Friendly Hen." Blinky was a roaster he bought at Ralph's and turned into an underground art sensation.
A page from Jeffrey Vallance's book about "Blinky, the Friendly Hen." Blinky was a roaster he bought at Ralph's and turned into an underground art sensation.
(
Jeffrey Vallance; courtesy Michael Uhlenkott
)

Meet Blinky the Friendly Hen, a dead, headless, buried and exhumed grocery store chicken. Blinky started as an art joke thirty years ago by a Cal State Northridge art student Jeffrey Vallance.

Meet Blinky the Friendly Hen, a dead, headless, buried and exhumed grocery store chicken. Blinky started as an art joke thirty years ago by a Cal State Northridge art student Jeffrey Vallance.