Category: Zoe’s birds

• A minute for Martha

  

  I have been drawing Martha since 2018. I have drawn her more than 100 times, mostly in a sketch book dedicated to her, which I started as an exercise in bearing witness to an extinct species. During the early, lockdown phase of Covid-19, the Martha sketchbook became a significant object in my life. Notes about…

  Zoe

  February 2, 2023

  Reflections, Zoe’s birds

• Stitching with Regent Honeyeaters

  

  When we began this project in 2018, our primary intent for it was to be a creative practice collaboration. The number of talks and publications from the project since then might suggest that no longer to be the case. Yet in the background we both continue to make creative works in response to what we…

  Timo Rissanen

  February 1, 2023

  Reflections, Timo’s birds, Zoe’s birds

  cross-stitch, regent honeyeater, villanelle

• Calyptura cristata

  

  Aim: I was struck by the descriptive language used to describe both the bird and the lack of knowledge about the species. For example, from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, this paragraph: The Kinglet Calyptura is among the most enigmatic and poorly understood species of Neotropical birds. A bizarre bird, it resembles a kinglet (Regulus)…

  Zoe

  January 18, 2022

  Uncategorized, Zoe’s birds