# Sphere Cow Sphere Cow is a taxidermy sculpture by Hungarian artist Geza Szollosi that warps a real cow into a near-perfect ball with its hooves, tail and face still poking out. Made in 2009, the image floated around 'crappy taxidermy' blogs for years before Reddit's absurdist subreddits turned it into one of the staple mascots of ironic 2018 shitposting. ## Origin The sculpture was made by Hungarian artist Geza Szollosi and shown as part of his 'My Pets' body of work at the Scope Miami art fair from December 2nd to 6th, 2009[1]. Szollosi documented the exhibition on his Blogspot, where the photo that later travelled as 'Sphere Cow' first appeared online[5]. The image was picked up by the blog crappytaxidermy.com on April 4th, 2010, filed as another entry in its ongoing catalogue of botched or bizarre mounts[6]. At that point the piece was treated as gallery-adjacent oddity, not a meme. - **Platform:** Art gallery (source) / Reddit (viral spread) - **Creator:** Geza Szollosi - **Date:** 2009 ## Overview The joke of Sphere Cow lives entirely in the image itself: a real taxidermied cow stuffed and stitched into an almost perfect ball, with the hooves, tail, ears and startled face still sticking out where you would expect them[1]. There is no caption format baked into the piece, which is part of why it worked so well as a nonsensical punchline once absurdist subreddits picked it up[2]. On /r/okbuddyretard the sculpture became a recurring character rather than a template, dropped into Who Would Win match-ups against other mascots like Walter Clements and repeatedly compared to the round selfie dog[3]. The picture also became attached to the older 'spherical cow' physics joke, which imagines a cow as a perfect sphere to make calculations easier, giving the image a second layer of humor for anyone who had sat through an intro physics class[4]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Sphere Cow? Sphere Cow is a taxidermy sculpture by artist Geza Szollosi that shapes a real cow into a near-perfect ball, later used as a surreal reaction image on Reddit[1][3]. ### Where did Sphere Cow come from? Szollosi exhibited the piece at the Scope Miami art fair in December 2009, and it circulated online through crappy-taxidermy blogs before Reddit picked it up[5][6]. ### What does Sphere Cow mean? There is no fixed meaning; posters use it as an absurd non-sequitur, often winking at the 'spherical cow' physics joke about oversimplified models[4][2]. ### How do you use Sphere Cow? It is typically dropped in as a nonsensical punchline in reaction templates or matched up against other subreddit mascots like Walter in Who Would Win posts[7][3]. ### Is Sphere Cow still popular? The image became a classic reference for /r/okbuddyretard and surrounding shitpost subreddits after its 2018 run, sitting alongside mascots like Walter Clements[3]. ## References 1. [http://gezaszollosi.blogspot.com/2009/11/cows.html]() 2. [https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/38kwnw/how_now_round_cow/]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sphere-cow]() 4. [http://www.physics.csbsju.edu/stats/WAPP2_cow.html]() 5. [https://www.gezaszollosi.com/my-pets/]() 6. [http://crappytaxidermy.com/post/496705241/by-geza-szollosi]() 7. [https://www.reddit.com/r/comedyheaven/comments/9vkfih/sphere_cow_be_like/]() 8. [https://www.reddit.com/r/okbuddyretard/comments/9xshx2/_/]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/sphere-cow Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library