Ornithographies #151, Common Starlings, Ebro Delta, Catalonia, 2018
archival inkjet print
$1,100 USD
This highly abstract image captures one of my favorite types of flight: starlings fleeing from a falcon attack. Unlike other images, here the individual birds are barely distinguishable due to the distance and the sheer number of individuals. Their forms dissolve into a collective drawing that resembles charcoal.
As they contract and expand in their flight formations, strange and evocative shapes emerge in the air—like the peculiar one we see here.
— Xavi Bou
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