Disappearing Birds
Wigeons in Natural Habitat
Christine Taylor's work traverses the boundaries between reality and artifice, inviting viewers to reconsider their perceptions of the natural world. In ‘Eurasian Wigeons in Natural Habitat’, Taylor orchestrates a captivating dialogue between the tangible and the digital, weaving together elements of photography and digital craft to serve up a visual tableau.
Drawing upon her background in both contemporary and commercial artistic practices, Taylor meticulously stages her composition, employing Eurasian wigeon plastic decoys as her subjects. Through digital enhancement, she breathes life into these plastic objects, objects contributing to climate change and the disappearance of wildlife around the world.
Central to Taylor's artistic vision is the notion of immersion. By integrating the decoys into a digitally crafted habitat, she invites viewers to step into an alternate reality—one where the boundaries between the real and the fabricated blur into insignificance. She is compelling viewers to confront their relationship with the natural world and of what disappearing birds means to their life.
Ultimately, Taylor's work serves as a meditation on the intersection of humanity and nature, prompting us to question our role in shaping the environments we inhabit.
Two thirds of all of the birds in North America are in danger of being lost forever due to the impacts of climate change
Using the National Audubon Society’s groundbreaking climate report, Survival by Degrees: 389 Bird Species on the Brink, Jen Delos Reyes is inviting 389 contemporary artists and designers to contribute a rendering/interpretation of one of the birds in the report to the Disappearing Birds of North America Archive. The contributions serve as an archive of contemporary images organizations dedicated to conservation and ornithology can use for fundraising, awareness campaigns, and exhibitions. The final archive of contributions will take the form of a book with all proceeds going to conservancy work.
