SYLVA BIRD

Birds inhabit the liminal space between the visible and the invisible, the grounded and the ethereal, the natural and the symbolic.

 

In Roman culture, their presence was a system of signs - structured, decipherable, divine. In the practice of auspicia, the flight paths and cries of birds became codified messages; the non-human was not silent but articulate - a bearer of meaning across dimensions.

 

In my work, birds are apparitions. They oscillate between figuration and code, between memory and signal.

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Animating birds is not an act of naturalistic mimicry but a gesture of invocation—a contemporary augurium, where their movement becomes a syntax of signification.

 

In digital flight, they no longer signal weather or war, but instead trace temporal dislocations, inhabit algorithmic ecologies, and evoke entangled epistemologies. They are vectors of memory and disappearance, carriers of ancestral intelligence whose presence unsettles the anthropocentric gaze.

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The animated bird does not mimic biology; it reenacts a ritual of meaning. It brings into the ecosystem of PLANT not just wings, but syntax: a forgotten semiotics of presence.