What Happens To The Swallows That Are Late For Spring?


What Happens To The Swallows That Are Late For Spring?, 2018

Multi-Channel video with sound, 7:20min, looped

Video screen embedded in hand woven roots and vines

64 x 64 x 23 cm / 25 x 25 x 9 inches

What Happens To The Swallows That Are Late For Spring?, is constructed from natural vines and hosts egg-like forms made of hand-blown glass with integrated lenses that give different views and magnify and distort the video inside.

Organic materials and digital imagery are brought into direct relation, connecting natural material with technology. The work draws parallels between systems of habitation, referencing the nest as forms of home where biological structures and constructed environments converge.