Cinderella is a robot built from a cinder block--and other tissues of a building's organs--that tries to commune with animals as fairytale princesses do, but only those that tuck their lives into the nooks and crannies of our own artificial habitats: rats, mice, gulls, geese, and pigeons.

Cinderella is, in fact, a minimal bit of building: just enough of a building to support a surveillance camera and the electrical junction box that contains the electronics that operate that surveillance camera and give it agency. As a whole, the camera, junction box, and the cinder block become a being infatuated with the neglected and often maligned denizens of our cities.

In the series, Fine Feathered Friends, Cinderella lovingly watches synathropic birds like pigeons and ducks.