Birds & airplanes

420×360cm
acrylic paint on wall, monitor, DVD

A digital photograph taken through the windows of a taxi shows a sun-washed blue sky and scattered clouds. The edge of the taxi’s partially opened window can be seen, as well as a city street lamp and the fragment of another urban element. The photograph has been reproduced as a large wall painting, depicted in exact relation to the quality of the digital original. A flat screen monitor attached to the painting, plays a video of two birds kept within a cage.

The monitor becomes a birdcage, a tiny restricting cubical within the installation that contains the two creatures and prevents them from flying away. The wall painting becomes an oblique peek at a vast openness made through a low window. The spectator becomes an enclosure for the wishes dwelling within every person. In each case neither the birds, nor the photographer, nor the spectator are allowed to actually penetrate the infinity spreading across the wall. All one sees is a projection or a facsimile of a true condition, a world of barriers shifted through changing perspectives where the only true glimpse of freedom is seen through the mind’s eye.