July 1, 2009

Previously Kinetic Art

If you choose to look, note the substitution of a dry leaf for the missing head of the first of the two dead birds.

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Bird (I). Previously kinetic sculpture. Artist: Lena.

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Bird (II). Previously kinetic sculpture. Artist: Lena.

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  1. India on July 1st, 2009 at 10:39 am

    These really are gorgeous. That Lena.

  2. Sheila Ryan on July 1st, 2009 at 10:43 am

    They are so sad and so beautiful that I think I must make a couple of prints for Cindy.

  3. Lucy on July 1st, 2009 at 11:00 am

    You know, I took a picture of a dead/dying thrush, not entirely unlike Bird (II) yesterday, too. Funny to see these on your flickr this morning. But mine was just with a camera phone, nothing fancy, and it didn’t come out particularly well. The really peculiar thing is that I swore, just after I took the picture – putting it really all up in the dead bird’s face and everything – that I saw the bird’s eyes just sort of drop, like the very last bit of life just fell out of it. Right after the picture.

  4. India on July 1st, 2009 at 11:10 am

    So are these, indeed, high enough resolution for prints? If so, I would like a set, myself.

  5. Sheila Ryan on July 1st, 2009 at 11:16 am

    I expect that is what you did see, Lucy. It is a subtle but generally unmistakable moment.

    As for the merits of cam-phones versus big-girl cameras in these situations, I deliberately took a little pain to blur these just a bit, in part to merge each bird with its background slightly but also because not to have done so felt invasive to me. More invasive than what I was doing already.

  6. Sheila Ryan on July 1st, 2009 at 11:17 am

    India, I have higher resolution versions I could print for you and would be happy to do so.

  7. from the comments : clusterflock on July 1st, 2009 at 11:27 am

    [...] Lucy Foley: You know, I took a picture of a dead/dying thrush, not entirely unlike Bird (II) yesterday, too. Funny to see these on your flickr this morning. But mine was just with a camera phone, nothing fancy, and it didn’t come out particularly well. The really peculiar thing is that I swore, just after I took the picture – putting it really all up in the dead bird’s face and everything – that I saw the bird’s eyes just sort of drop, like the very last bit of life just fell out of it. Right after the picture. [...]

  8. Gavan on July 1st, 2009 at 8:22 pm

    Bird (II), for those interested, is a Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus ).

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