Mixed Media
- 10 X 10 X 10
Fly Away Little Bird
- Broadside
- Double Entente
- Inside the Hula Hoop
- Nesting
- Sirens
The ideas for the work in “Fly Away Little Bird” at Go North —a contemporary art space in Beacon, New York, began to formulate while reading the article Greetings Kill: Primer for a Pandemic, by Donald G. McNeil Jr. in the New York Times. Mr. McNeil muses about how Americans must learn to “rewrite the way we interact” as a result of the very real possibility of a global pandemic. In an article in The Jacarta Post, reporter Emmy Fitri suggests that how a nation responds and prepares for potential health crisis can ultimately bring about radical changes for the better. Fitri recommends that countries become “trend-setter[s] in using the emergence of this avian influenza as precursor for expanded public health programs, tougher health policies, tighter surveillance, more research, better tests and greater public education.” The potential threat of a global pandemic of H5N1 (the scientific name for the Avian Flu) became the basis for the creation of Fly Away Little Bird.