Spring: Ode to Twitter

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Spring: Ode to Twitter
ArtWalk 2009 at the Galt Museum

Spring:  Ode to Twitter
Mixed media, co-polymer
2009

Technology and nature intertwine in this multimedia collage. Bird-like tree branches flow in one direction and as is the case with most Southern Alberta trees, it leans. Three Twitter-inspired bird icons hang from the branches.  Motivated by the wiring of the Burmis Tree, a metal cylinder, an old laser printer part, forms a shortened fourth branch of the tree where a small owl is perched.

Robin
artist-made nest, eggs, egg shells, baby birds and parent Robin

The piece features a co-polymer male robin sculpture and an artist-created bird’s nest housing three eggs and two baby robins with their broken shells.   (There is no mom.)

Spring in Alberta
tree masque

The birds that hang from the tree, rather than being a part of the tree, I created from porcelain and are inspired from Twitter icons.  They are not meant to reflect a real bird; they are tech birds.  I guess I’m a tech bird too, but as an introvert, I use the tree as a masque.

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