Branden Koch

The male bower bird looks to his immediate surroundings to scavenge colorful objects and everyday detritus for an eclectic display that serves the sole purpose of attracting a suitable mate.  He steals fragments from the world around him that were once rendered temporarily useless or forgotten:  bits of aluminum foil, a teal plastic thimble, a brass key tossed onto a picnic blanket, velvety orange berries.  He flies them back to his bower to decisively rearrange and compose them according to a unique plan that diagrams a new, vital, and active site.  A stage set to court a theater of survival, of procreation, a collection, a construction for recollecting.  A disappointment and yet fully a necessary means of negotiation.   Vulnerable and hopeful, a language dislocates meaning, delivering a space of potential communication.