Nets

Uccellagione (fowling)

While living in Italy, I became fascinated by the structures local Bresciani used to hunt songbirds. While the practice is mostly illegal today, you can still see the structures (called "roccoli") all over the province. While some roccoli can be giant, extravagant, and with massive artificial scaffolding, most are more humble, made using an isolated group of trees in a field or on a mountain ridge.

I am incredibly interested in this intersection of the desire to preserve century-long human traditions and the critical need to change our behavior and relationships with the other critters we share the earth with.

On Nets and Fences (and being all together): Residency with the Albanian Ornithological Society

During my time at the Bird Ringing Art Camp with the with the Albanian Ornithological Society, I had the privilege to experience the way that capturing of birds for banding differs from the use of nets in illegal poaching. Coming from a research background in the use of nets for catching migratory songbirds in Northern Italy, the experience of bird ringing was particularly enlightening, specifically revealing how capture can be a form of care.

Nets are a structure that describe the inter-connectivity of the world. An ecosystem is a woven mesh of beings, just like our bodies, just like our countries. While this project is still ongoing, linked bellow is a collection of notes, drawings, samples, and artworks that directly explore nets as more than a tool for ensnaring, but rather as a form representative of our entangled existence.

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