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These drawings explore my anxiety about cultivated indifference towards nature and what might result from this, referencing the visual language of Victorian/Edwardian museums and memorials.

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It conflates two concurrent events in Suffolk, where I live; the removal of the Ogilvie Bird Collection from Ipswich Museum and the devastation of natural habitats near Leiston (where many of the bird specimens were shot in the Edwardian era) in order to build Sizewell C nuclear power station.

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The finest bird specimens were shot and stuffed in glass cases and displayed in the museum. But the glass cases were too substantial and had to be replaced by digital screens. The screens needed electricity meaning more power stations were built to enable the universal use of digital devices. To make room for the power stations the habitats of multiple bird species were destroyed. 

 

Today, birds no longer exist but we know what they were like from our digital records.

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