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What’s The Word, Bird? Fine Feathered Friends Soar On The Street

What’s The Word, Bird? Fine Feathered Friends Soar On The Street

It’s a convivial if embarrassing juxtaposition when you witness a bird in flight in this brutish man-made city environment, so unrefined are all of our efforts next to his. He rewards us with a song or a soaring performance in air, and despite our heavy slow selves anchored to this pavement, we shield the sun with our hand and follow him with our eyes, paying some respect for his gift and his splendor.

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Mata Ruda. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Another crosses his path mid-air. Her wings are so tempered and fine, allowing her to glide with grace, cutting across the chorus of perpendicular and parallel lines, shapes, and epochs that rise and fall and crash clumsily into one another in this hard-edged city.

How do they do it, these birds – especially when it seems like we do very little to help them? Why do they persist in this city that seems often to be unconscious of nature? Is it just our nature to be so unconscious? They should have abandoned us long ago. Yet they persist, and Street Artists here pay them tribute for all that they give us.

Is this a tone on tone Various & Gould?

Unknown artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“Fly on, sea-birds! fly sideways, or wheel in large circles high in the air,” says Walt Whitman as he crosses on the Brooklyn Ferry.

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Miss Van. Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Emily Dickenson writes,
“A Bird came down the Walk —
He did not know I saw —
He bit an Angleworm in halves
And ate the fellow, raw,”

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Wing (photo © Jaime Rojo)

And William Blake paints a couple as love birds here:

“He. O thou summer’s harmony,
I have liv’d and mourn’d for thee;
Each day I mourn along the wood,
And night hath heard my sorrows loud.

She. Dost thou truly long for me?
And am I thus sweet to thee?
Sorrow now is at an end,
O my Lover and my Friend!

He. Come, on wings of joy we’ll fly
To where my bower hangs on high;
Come, and make thy calm retreat
Among green leaves and blossoms sweet.”

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Wing (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Goslings taking in the graffiti.  (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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DalEast in Rochester, NY for Wall Therapy. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Li-Hill for the Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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A passenger pigeon waiting for the J train. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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These pigeons appeared on the streets of NYC at the onset of Summer. Was it an ad campaign? (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Faith47 for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Faith47 for Wall Therapy in Rochester, NY. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Faith47 for The L.I.S.A. Project in NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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A Robin on a fence in Manhattan. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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KA for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Blanca . Blanca (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Skirl (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Eder Muniz in Rochester, NY. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Mr. PRVRT (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Mr. PRVRT (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Two sets of Cardinals in Central Park in January 2015. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

 

 

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BSA Images Of The Week: 07.19.15

BSA Images Of The Week: 07.19.15

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Chomp chomp, slurp slurp, spraaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy spray sp sp sp spraaayyyyyyyyyy. The sounds of a sidewalk barbecue and painting a new piece on a wall on a hot July day in Brooklyn. Also honking, screeching, sirens, and Action Bronson, Hot Chip, or Major Lazer pumping out the windows of a passing car. Want a cherry popsicle?

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring $howta, Barlo, BD White, Brad Robson, DAIN, Dee Dee, Denton Burrows, Faith47, Fin DAC, Jack Fox, Jorit Agoch, LOMNOPI, JPO, London Kaye, Marina Capdevila, Skirl, Sosta, and Zimer.

Top image above >>> Marina Capdevila (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Findac does a B-Girl in BK (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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LMNOPI (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Faith47 for The L.I.S.A. Project (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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$howta (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Zimer (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Skirl (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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London Kaye (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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BD White collab with JPO. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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BD White collab with JPO. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Jack Fox for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Including traffic. Denton Burrows (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Dee Dee. We think the stache came later… (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Brad Robson at Woodward Project Space. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Peace (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Barlo and Sosta collaborate in Hong Kong. (photo ©  Barlo)

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Dain is ripping things up. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Jorit Agoch for The Bushwick Collective. Last Sunday we published a process shot. Here is the completed mural. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Untitled. New York City. July 2015. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

 

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