On the Wing, 2013
Glazed porcelain. 5 ¼” x 9” x 1 ¼”
Deflated castings of birds that died in flight suggest both the unexpected displacements, and the wanderlust that intrude on security and contentment. The fragility of a bird’s life embodies the ebb and flow of shelter and exposure, of devotion and distance, of intimacy and autonomy, articulating the conflicts inherent in domesticating desire, in the tensions between wild and tame, chaos and cultivation.