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Title: Pheasant Killed By Text
Medium: Acrylic paint and real pheasant feathers on translucent plastic, wooden frame
Dimensions: 107 x 146 cm
Date: 2013
Exhibitions: SAK Kunstbygning, Svendborg, Denmark, 2018

Concept/Description:
Pheasant Killed By Text is about the interactions and conflicts between human activities and non-human lives, particularly in rural settings where pheasants are often raised specifically to be “driven” for hunting. This piece arose from witnessing one effect of these interactions: non-road savvy pheasants are frequently lying dead by the roadside – coupled with the pervasive human tendency to text while driving. The piece reflects on human-non-human animal relations and the way people use non-human animals for amusement – or the way people accidentally out of ignorance kill, not with guns, but with the car-cell phone assemblage. The piece reflects on the conflicts at the boundary between “nature” and “culture”.

Layered acrylic paint and pheasant feathers are applied to a translucent plastic surface,  to portray the beauty and evental death of these birds. The work is vivid with red, brown, and white.

Series:
Standalone artwork, aligned with broader inquiries into human-environment interactions and non-human agency.

Location/Collection:
Exhibited at SAK Kunstbygning, currently part of my personal collection and available for future gallery presentations.