Darwin Waterfront Public Art
Then & Now: Commission: 2010
A piece developed in collaboartion with Urban Art Projects on the Darwin Waterfront. Flock design was conceptually derived from the link between Darwin and its namesake and the waterfront setting. Birds played an influential role in shaping Charles Darwin’s understanding of natural selection, as well as being an animal that he admired;
On the whole, birds appear to be the most aesthetic of all animals, excepting of course man, and have nearly the same taste for the beautiful as we have.
Charles Darwin The Descent of Man, Secondary Sexual Characters of Birds
Each panel of a bird is treated as a frame, and when rotated by the wind acts as a basic animation of a bird in flight.
