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Ann COPEMAN
Chronicle of a Gondwanan Songbird watercolour and ink on watercolour paper, engraving on perspex, wood My Alternative Archive explores a story of tenuous survival: a songbird of ancient heritage from a time beyond measure now endangered tilting towards extinction pulled back from the brink by collaborative effort through a transfusion of breath: the mingling of two breaths the human and the bird the bird lives on it is the lean of the one towards the other the intimacy of the recovery through the helping hand of the other that gestures towards continuance Photo: A. Danks |