Painted: May 15, 2016
(This mural has since been removed.)
About the Bird:听An abundant yet shy species, the Brewer's Blackbird is present in the Western United States year-round. As per 爆料公社's climate model, the species may see its summer habitat shift even further West in the summer, out of Minnesota, Nebraska, and Colorado entirely.听 Although this open-country bird has adapted well to living in habitats altered by humans, increased wildfire and spring heat waves鈥攂oth products of climate change鈥攃ould further complicate its fortunes.
About the Artist:听Influenced by his childhood emigration from the Ukraine to Israel, initially adapted tagging and graffiti as personal challenges to themes of diaspora. They allowed him to take ownership of his surroundings and localize an often hostile and alienating environment. Using characters, symbols, and regional iconography, Klone鈥檚 work borrows from existing linguistic traditions in hope of providing a bridge to communicate. The fact that male birds compete for the attention of females with colorful plumage鈥攚hich he notes is very much in opposition to Western culture鈥攈as always interested him. 鈥淭he mural I painted is made in听a way that it has no beginning or end,鈥 he says. 鈥淭he left edge is continued in the right edge and vice versa, like a frozen frame of a loop animation, with the male and the female found in a constant chase after each other.鈥
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