Becoming Raven
'..whatever other styles of savvy these creatures may or may not display, all of them while aloft, are thinking exquisitely along the whole length of their limbs. It is a brilliance we're ill equipped to notice if we associate smartness only with our own very centralised style of cognition. When we disparage the intelligence of birds, or the size of their brains, we miss that flight itself is a kind of thinking, a gliding within the mind, a grace we humans rarely attain in our contemplations (although if following a falcon [or raven] with our focus, we sometimes find our thoughts soaring as well)' David Abram | Becoming Animal - An earthly cosmology | Discourse of Birds...

Becoming Raven - Installation view 1 (photo courtesy Newcastle Art Gallery)

Becoming Raven - Installation view 2 (photo courtesy Newcastle Art Gallery

Becoming Raven - Installation view 3 (photo courtesy Newcaslte Art Gallery)

Crow (1)

Crow (2)

Crow (3)


Crow (5)

Crow (6)

Becoming Raven - Two Heads

Becoming Raven - Caught in Flight

Becoming Raven - Head and Foot

Becoming Raven - In Flight



