Twice : Migration
Installation at Friesen Galleries, January/February 2009
500 cut and folded paper birds and machine embroidered felt birds
The installation, Twice : Migration, refers to the visual phenomenon of groups of birds moving as one in flight and to various scientific and literary descriptions of the biannual movement of birds in migration. The felt birds are embroidered with words taken at random from a chapter on these movements in Arthur J. Thompson's The Biology of Birds published in 1923.
500 cut and folded paper birds and machine embroidered felt birds
The installation, Twice : Migration, refers to the visual phenomenon of groups of birds moving as one in flight and to various scientific and literary descriptions of the biannual movement of birds in migration. The felt birds are embroidered with words taken at random from a chapter on these movements in Arthur J. Thompson's The Biology of Birds published in 1923.
