Geese en masse!
Geese just flying in in huge flocks now - keep them coming!? Thanks especially to all the schools and colleges in Cornwall for their beautiful and imaginative work.? Can't wait to see them all flying through the hall.
Playing with models….
I've been making a terribly hi-tech model of the installation to see how it's going to work in the space.
Geese en route
One of my geese is currently still flying south here: http://www.awi.de/en/infrastructure/ships/polarstern/where_is_polarstern/ Can't wait for it to come back!
Call for volunteers
Construction of the installation is going to take place from August 20th until September 13th at Hope Hall, and I'm going to need some volunteers to help.? Anyone with skills in simple needlework, ladder-holding, drilling into walls, fitting tensioned wires and being...
Hatching plans
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/david-suzuki/world-bird-population_b_3569377.html
Spring alive
http://www.birdlife.org/community/2013/07/new-spring-alive-record-more-than-270000-bird-observations-in-europe/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-spring-alive-record-more-than-270000-bird-observations-in-europe
If..
'If you cut the forest down, you are being mean to birds. Sometimes people pour oil in the sea, that makes animals ill.' (Lily Wild)
You can tell…
You can tell how high the wind is by how still the birds hang. (Rt Rev Rowan Williams)
Geese like letters…
'..for a moment it was as if we were travelling across the middle of a page, with whiteness and black markings all around us, and geese lifting off the snow like letters coming unstuck.' (William Fiennes, The Snow Geese)
Two poles..
'It was as if I existed between two poles, the known and the new, and found myself drawn alternately from one to the other.' (William Fiennes, 'The Snow Geese')