Footprint
Birds Watching
- Lynne Warren, Art By Jenny Kendler
- PhotoZone
- Mar 31, 2023
"WHEN WE LOOK AT NATURE, nature looks back,” says Chicago-based artist . Inspired by research on the likely impacts of climate change on avian habitats—and by a birding trip where she was “transfixed by the eyes of other beings”—Kendler created this 40-foot-long sculpture for an exhibition at the in New York’s Hudson Valley titled “.” Paintings mounted on metal supports , including the snowy owl (large golden eye at center), which stands to lose more than half its habitat at only 1.5 degrees C of warming, which we could reach in 10 years.
An artist-in-residence for the since 2014, Kendler says the beauty of nature “reaches people in a place that’s very emotional, then draws them into important conversations” about conservation. “Our empathy for other beings, or lack thereof, has itself become an ecological force.”
