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by mp Warming - USA/Berlin
 
Archival limited edition of ten printed in giclée method on Hahnemühle William Turner paper. Size 65x84 cm/ approx 25x33 in.
 
'Bird Architecture' was created in partnership with Yale University Ornithologist Dr. Richard Prum, author of The Evolution of Beauty.
 
​Exhibited at the 2019 Venice Biennale and the 2019 Watou Festival, Belgium, with Prum's Pulitzer nominated book. Prum's unique understanding of the Darwinian idea that all species have aesthetic agency attracted the Warming to his work.
 
The montage includes her drawings and images from Leonaro da Vinci's Codex on the Flight of Birds (that Prum researched and found to be true). The print also includes graphs from Prum Lab studies on the susurration of hummingbird wings (near her drawing of his ear).