‘I Follow Birds’, 2019
A Bird Song
(Christina Rossetti – 1830-1894)
It’s a year almost that I have not seen her:
Oh, last summer green things were greener,
Brambles fewer, the blue sky bluer.
It’s surely summer, for there’s a swallow:
Come one swallow, his mate will follow,
The bird race quicken and wheel and thicken.
Oh happy swallow whose mate will follow
O’er height, o’er hollow! I’d be a swallow,
To build this weather one nest together.
2019, private collection
‘I Follow Birds’ is an invitation to listen to inner instinct — that quiet feeling that sometimes guides us before we are able to explain it. The figure floats between safety and the unknown, in a space that feels both light and uncertain, like the moment when we decide whether to trust what we feel.
The birds that call represent curiosity, hope, maybe even love — everything that can move us beyond what is familiar. The work speaks about the need to sometimes follow what is calling us, even when we don’t know where it leads, but we feel it is toward something good.
Additional information
| Year | 2019 |
|---|---|
| Materials | Mixed media, vintage print, metal tin, plexiglass |
| Dimensions | 10.5 × 6 × 2.5 cm |
| Status | Private collection |
| Note | All my tins are equipped with a triangular hook on the back for easy mounting and a protective plexiglass cover in the front. |
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