You Have the Power by Charlotte Bird
You Have the Power Charlotte Bird installation 2024 ARTIST STATEMENT From Glinda to Dorothy, "You’ve always had the power, my dear. You just had to learn it for yourself." Thanks for the reminder, Charlie. [...]
Murmuration by Charlotte Bird
Murmuration Charlotte Bird installation 2024 ARTIST STATEMENT A murmuration is when thousands of starlings fly together in a coordinated, shape-shifting manner across the sky. I love the images of birds flying but wanted [...]
The View by Charlotte Bird
The View Charlotte Bird 6 x 84 x 1 inches 2024 ARTIST STATEMENT The View is a memoir of the view from the porch during seven months in 1987 spent living in the [...]
A Year in the Leaf by Charlotte Bird
A Year in the Leaf Charlotte Bird 6.25 x 5.25 x 21 inches 2024 ARTIST STATEMENT Aspen Leaf Miner (Phyllocnistis populiella) infestations of poplar species in Alaska are very visible along roads and [...]
Nemesis Rising by Charlotte Bird
Nemesis Rising Charlotte Bird 10.5 x 6 x 32 inches 2024 ARTIST STATEMENT Climate change has increased the average annual temperature in many places. Higher temperatures in combination with reduced rainfall stresses many [...]
Wonder by Charlotte Bird
Wonder Charlotte Bird 5 x 5.5 x 32 inches 2024 ARTIST STATEMENT Wonder is a paper memory of many canoe trips in the high Arctic. I have been a rock collector all my [...]
Friends From Away by Charlotte Bird
Friends From Away Charlotte Bird 9.5 x 11.5 x 11.5 inches 2024 ARTIST STATEMENT The bird feeder hangs from a large eucalyptus limb outside the window. The migratory birds share the bounty with local [...]
Savage River Magpie by Charlotte Bird
Savage River Magpie Charlotte Bird 11.25 x 11.5 x 11.5 inches 2024 ARTIST STATEMENT At the end of a multi-day backpack in the Denali National Park backcountry, we walked several miles down the Savage [...]
Roy and Millie by Charlotte Bird
Roy and Millie Charlotte Bird 43 x 72 inches 2024 ARTIST STATEMENT Roy and Millie were a pair of sandhill cranes who annually nested on a pond near some friends’ home outside Fairbanks, [...]
Migration Installation by Charlotte Bird
Migration Installation Charlotte Bird 9’ x 9.5’ x 8 inches 2024 ARTIST STATEMENT Each fall thousands of sandhill cranes fly south from their Arctic tundra nesting grounds to wintering places in California, Texas, [...]