Urban Plight

2006
mixed media

Urban Plight

I took a group of thirty-inch tall ceramic birds on the road and photographed them in urban settings from the train yards of Kansas City to the highways of southern Texas. While on the road I began writing short narratives about their habitat, conservation efforts for them, the people who study them, their biological makeup, etc. This culminated into a twelve-page faux National Geographic article, which I printed and inserted into the November issue of the publication. After fifteen copies were produced, they were distributed to doctors' offices nation wide.

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