🐹 Welcome to the Sunshine Shrine
Dedicated to the immortal rodent who refused to stay dead.
This is a sacred space. A plushy mausoleum. A velvet-lined memory glitch. Sunshine wasn’t just one hamster. She was an idea. A lifestyle. A denial-fueled ritual in tiny rodent form.
“I always had a hamster named Sunshine. She never died. There were nine.”
Don’t ask how. Don’t ask why. Just accept her.
🧼 Mini Disclaimer
No animals were knowingly immortalized during the creation of this artwork. Sunshine was many things: a hamster, a guinea pig, a mystery—but mostly she was a coping mechanism in a fur coat.
"Sunshine 4 & 7"
Acrylic on denial, 2023
Artist: Jordy Arp
Part of an ongoing series titled Reincarnation is Real if You Have Enough Hamsters, this piece commemorates two of the many Sunshines—small, fuzzy avatars of death avoidance dressed in rodent drag. Numbered not chronologically, but cosmically, each Sunshine represents a cycle of grief rebranded as a pet store purchase.
Painted with the gentle hand of someone who knows too well that humor is a better coping mechanism than silence, Sunshine 4 and 7 invite the viewer to smile—then squirm.
Because nothing says “I’m emotionally processing” like a hamster with legacy trauma and perfect posture.
Please do not tap the glass. They’re still working through it.