'Birds Don’t Recognise Boundaries'
(Photography, 44cm x 34cm)
A grid of photographic images of a cast sculptural bird placed in contexts that signify territory. For example, fences, walls, a military pill box, on double yellow lines, as well as ‘free’ situations, like in a tree or on a beach. Accepting many creatures are territorial to some extent, none have gone to the peculiar extent of marking lines on map to enforce limits on freedom of movement. This is arguably why the ‘human’ world is so fucked up. And also why nature, in it’s wider sense, will outlast humanity. I think artists are similar in their societal status to pigeons. Sometimes celebrated, but often seen as a bit of a nuisance. Art is also increasingly discouraged in terms of formal education in favour of ‘proper’ subjects. Like pigeons we tend to potter on regardless, holding a healthy contempt for political, national, social and hierarchical boundaries. Seeing the world more as an open playground to explore and interrupt.