230,000 migratory birds die from window collisions in NYC every year, including the blackpoll warbler, which travels from North America to South America. Despite flying three days straight, many don’t survive due to window collisions.
This piece reflects on our relationship with non-human animals, focusing on female Neo-tropical blackpoll warblers, immigrants like me who challenge borders. The tags on the dead blackpolls indicate where and when they were found in NYC.
#movingconstants #blackpollwarbler #migratorybirds #deadbirds
@audubonamericas@audubon_ny@tcarted
230,000 migratory birds die from window collisions in NYC every year, including the blackpoll warbler, which travels from North America to South America. Despite flying three days straight, many don’t survive due to window collisions.
This piece reflects on our relationship with non-human animals, focusing on female Neo-tropical blackpoll warblers, immigrants like me who challenge borders. The tags on the dead blackpolls indicate where and when they were found in NYC.
@audubonamericas@audubon_ny@tcarted
230,000 migratory birds die from window collisions in NYC every year, including the blackpoll warbler, which travels from North America to South America. Despite flying three days straight, many don’t survive due to window collisions.
This piece reflects on our relationship with non-human animals, focusing on female Neo-tropical blackpoll warblers, immigrants like me who challenge borders. The tags on the dead blackpolls indicate where and when they were found in NYC.
#movingconstants #blackpollwarbler #migratorybirds #deadbirds
@audubonamericas@audubon_ny@tcarted
𝙀𝙭 𝙤𝙫𝙤 𝙤𝙢𝙣𝙞𝙖 (Everything from the egg)
From the Oology Series: porcelain replicas of bird eggs modeled after Red-footed Booby, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Ivory Gull, and Grey Black-backed Gull.
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Displayed over a wallpaper made from my drawings of eggs.
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On memory, loss, and the tension between care and control—while honoring nature’s beauty.
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Made at @teacherscollegeceramics
Available for sale.
𝙀𝙭 𝙤𝙫𝙤 𝙤𝙢𝙣𝙞𝙖
From the Oology Series: porcelain replicas of bird eggs modeled after Rock Dove, Chestnut Teal, Ivory Gull, White-crowned Sparrow, Common Tern, Black Oystercatcher, Olive-backed Sunbird, Eurasian Jay, and Black Thrush.
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Displayed over a wallpaper made from my drawings of eggs, based on archival and natural history references.
Made @teacherscollegeceramics 2024
Available for sale @astrolabe_contemporary
𝙀𝙭 𝙤𝙫𝙤 𝙤𝙢𝙣𝙞𝙖 (Everything from the egg)
From Oology series—a reflection on memory, loss, and the systems we’ve built to preserve what we’ve endangered.
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Porcelain replicas modeled after: Eastern Bluebird, Mourning Warbler, Red-legged Partridge, Brown-headed Cowbird, Carolina Chickadee, House Finch, Northern Parula, American Robin, Northern Flicker, White-crowned Sparrow, Mallard, Vesper Sparrow, and Western Gull.
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The wallpaper shows my drawings of bird eggs, referencing archives and species that are endangered, historically collected, or regionally significant.
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Made at @teacherscollegeceramics@macyartgallerytc 2024
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Available for sale
“Silent Skies, Extinction on Rise!”
Video, 2024.
Did you know an estimated 90,000 birds die in NYC each year from window collisions alone?
Friends of a Feather exhibition is on now at @macyartgallerytc
Oct 7 - Nov 7.
Reception: Oct 10 5-7pm
Monday-Thursday, 11am-4pm.
@teacherscollege@tcarted@tcartshumanities
Friends of a Feather
October 7 – November 7, 2024
Reception: October 10, 5–7pm
How can art practices help us reflect on wildlife vulnerability and conservation while shifting our anthropocentrism?
In Friends of a Feather, artist Karolina Rojas explores these themes through digital drawings, taxidermy, and ceramics. Her work reinterprets traditional scientific representation looking into themes of death and conservation. The title plays on the idiom “birds of a feather flock together,” expanding it to explore the kinship between living beings and urging us to re-evaluate our friendship with nonhuman animals.
🐦⬛Bird Friend: #mourningwarbler
More information
@macyartgallerytc@astrolabe_contemporary@tcarted@teacherscollege@tcartshumanities
#FriendsofaFeather #KarolinaRojas #WildlifeConservation #Birds #ArtAndScience #ornithologycollection #oologycollections #taxidermy
Rusty-faced parrot | Hapalopsittaca amazonina
A species found in Colombia and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss.
#birdskins #scientificdrawing #taxidermy #ornithologycollection #colombianbirds #aviario #volucriscuriositas
Niceforo's Wren | Thryophilus nicefori
Preserved skin: San Gil, 1948
Drawing: New York, 2022
Endangered songbird restricted to the western slopes of the northern part of Colombia’s eastern Andes.
#taxidermydrawing #birdskins #colombianbirds #naturalhistoryillustration #niceforoswren #aviario #volucriscuriositas #preservedbirds
