Barn swallows are almost always moving. They arrive with the warmer months, fill the summer sky with quick arcs of flight, and eventually disappear again, travelling thousands of kilometres with the changing seasons.
I've become interested in the moments that happen between those flights—the bird resting on a wire, waiting on a post, meeting another bird, or briefly suspended against the sky.
In this series, I use the swallow as a way to explore movement, pause, connection and migration. The geometric forms in each composition create a visual tension between the freedom of flight and the fixed structures around it. They are deliberately abstract: blocks of colour and shape that can suggest architecture, landscape, boundaries or simply the visual space through which the bird moves.
There is also something timely in watching a creature whose entire existence depends on crossing borders. A swallow doesn't recognize a line on a map. It simply follows its ancient route, leaving and returning as it always has.
The individual works consider different moments along that journey—departing, arriving, resting, meeting and moving on.
Side by Side (12 x 16) - $200 unframed
Rested (4 x 4) - $40 Unframed
