Unnatural Migrations - Series 2 #1
Unnatural Migrations - Series 2 #2
Unnatural Migrations - Series 2 #3
Unnatural Migrations - Series 2 #4
Birds and plants from distant locations are brought together and re-contextualized to create an exotic, strangely lit environment. In each frame a bird has arrived, transposed digitally from its current habitat - the collection of a natural history museum. Reanimated through the skill of the taxidermist, captured photographically and digitally embedded in a distant Portuguese forest. Dating from the 1700 and 1800s, these birds have made many journeys before arriving in the museums that currently house them. I am interested in the way collecting processes create concentrations of diverse specimens in unnatural locations, whilst concurrently dispersing individual species globally through a series of strange migrations.