Cages have both restrictive and protective functions depending on how they are used. Many belief systems and religions believe the bird cage to be symbolic of the soul. Carl Jung expressed this thought through the sense of a caged spirit. I wanted to create something fabricated with a symbolic meaning to our culture today, expressed in a form of a modern art piece.
Inspiration:
Bird cage installation in Sydney, Australia
Birds singing in Southeast Asia:
I got rope from Home Depot and black feathers from Amazon. I wanted the feathers to symbolize the presence of a bird, but also the absence of it. This didn’t come out exactly the way I wanted it to and maybe if I had more time I would have wanted to put in a speaker for bird sounds to come out from the feather/bird cage.
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