Excuse me. You really are joking. If you have to ask why elephant tusks are wrong? I agree with the person above. Please, try to educate yourself on more than fine art. Thank you.

I bet you have a hamburger in your hand right now! Now, who needs education? Go ahead and spend as much time as you need to figure that statement out. Come back when you want 'education'!

So, if there are enough left over after killing them, that's okay? Or if it's legal? Do you eat fast food? Fast food joints actually pay billions every year to litterally sell dead cows and chickens through what is called a commercial to 'promote' the sell of hamburgers and chicken sandwiches on television. Guess what, when you pay for your food some of that money pays for the commercial. So, you litterally pay for promoting the slaughter of animals, doesn't matter how many there are left over. My point is this....'art' is purely defined on opinion! Stop judging! One may like red carpet and one may dislike red carpet. Art, whether on the wall, in your office or on a table, is based on personal opinion! Art is an expression of one!

I like the tree.

@Taylor Made Custom - I was not judging, I was making an observation.

Another observation is that I think it is sad that you or any other artist needs or wants to use authentic or fake tusks to enhance their artistic expression.

Once again, this is an observation...NOT a judgement.

@Decorative Glass Solutions - LOL

This room and its elephant tusks should be removed from Houzz. This is an outrageous statement!!

First off, what does horrible farming practices have to do with the extinction of an entire species? Oh and by the way I’m a vegan so there goes your entire “cheeseburger theory” argument.
Elephants are beautiful and kind animals. And they are being brutally slaughtered so that you can put part of their corpse in your house as decoration or “art”!
I don’t think anyone would display a murdered human beings corpse in their living room and call it art.
The murder of any living being is never right. But to then call it art is deplorable and disgusting.