"The Messengers" by Karley Feaver
Aug
7
to Aug 28

"The Messengers" by Karley Feaver

Often colour serves to protect a bird by enabling it to escape danger, or capture its prey. Among the many interesting phases of bird life, none possesses a more absorbing interest than that relating to their various kinds of mimicry. Many birds and animals have learned, or have assumed a form of mimicry whereby they so closely imitate their immediate surroundings as to pass unnoticed by their enemies.⁠
The term "mimicry" is misleading in so far as it conveys the idea of conscious imitation, especially as regards colouration, which is supplied to the birds by the bountiful hand of Nature.⁠
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In this case, with The Messengers, these birds choose colour and adornment to flaunt and showcase themselves. They express their individualism to tell a story.⁠
These new species visually and emotionally explore transformation and cross the line between what is absurd, what is real.

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