[ WAR BIRDS + FRIENDS ]

In the First and Second World Wars, armies on all sides used carrier pigeons as a means of communications, reconnaissance, and intelligence. There was also a booming business in gas masks for children and animals. This series plays with archival images of children and animals within various apparatus of wartime.

Thanks for the doves. they were tasty. please send more.

February 26, 2010

Here is a meditation piece for shabbat. This carrier pigeon brings its HAPPY PURIM message to you one day early! It has travelled from a 20th century, war-torn Purim, on a day when the Allies were dropping carrier pigeons into France in an attempt to communicate with the struggling resistance movement. This is a Nazi bird, [...]


BumbleMoth

BumbleMoth (image by Paetrick Schmidt)