Trans*, Inter*, Non-binary Ducks
The mallards in this puzzle all have a plumage that is a mixture of the colors of typical female and male ducks. They thus symbolize gender diversity.
Even in reality, mallards do not always look like typical female or male ducks. In their youth and outside the breeding season, drakes wear plumage that looks very similar to that of females. Older female ducks produce increased amounts of testosterone, which causes their plumage to gradually resemble that of the males. Intersex ducks probably exist just as they do among many other animal species.
Cis Ducks
For comparison to the ducks in the puzzle, here are two adult cis-endo ducks as they typically look during the breeding season.
How many pieces?
1.000 pieces. Good luck!
About the Artist
Katja Anton Cronauer was raised in villages and a small town in southwest Germany by two artists. He was allowed to rollick about in pants, play in the mud, and, longer than other kids assigned female at birth, was permitted swimming trunks without a bikini top. He studied Computer Science and then went to Canada, where he studied activism and the internet for his Ph.D.
Today he lives in Berlin, is an artist, and runs trans*fabel, a web shop with art and books on the topic Beyond the Binary Gender System. In his art, he reconstructs oil and acrylic paintings into digitally drawn animals that defy binary expectations.