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Joan Ross
View of the future, 2021hand-coloured pigment print on rag paper73 x 106 cm / 81 x 114 cm (framed)edition of 8 + 2 APPOAThe seed for the idea of doing headless birds actually originated in my gallerist's home where I was staying when I came down for a show. There was a print...The seed for the idea of doing headless birds actually originated in my gallerist's home where I was staying when I came down for a show.
There was a print of a bird in the hallway and the sun reflected on the glass and for a minute and it looked like it didn’t have a head and I thought wow that looks weird, I like that.
The headlessness suggest what the future could be without birds and the headlessness is a metaphor for this, it also about greed collecting and ownership.
