Swallow-tailed Kite (and Others) by Lunar New Year
Location: 575 W. 155th St., New York, NY 10032
Painted:聽9/25 to 10/2/2015.听
About the Birds:聽The outline of the mural depicts the聽Swallow-tailed Kite, a striking bird of prey that nests in coastal states of the southeastern U.S. Spring heat waves and heavy rain, exacerbated by climate change, may threaten the bird's survival聽in the future. Satellite tags may help scientists better understand where they migrate in order to聽protect them; learn聽how and . Depicted inside the kite is a composite of 12聽other birds: the聽Scarlet Tanager,听American Kestrel,听Black-and-white Warbler,听Tree Swallow,听Northern Harrier,听Magnolia Warbler,听Yellow-bellied Sapsucker,听聽Golden Eagle,听White-throated Sparrow,听Ring-billed Gull,听Common Raven, and聽Baltimore Oriole.听 Learn more about the threats these and other species face at聽.听
About the Artist:聽Lunar New Year聽is an artist, muralist, and interloper defined by borders and hybridity,听raised within the duality of Ecuador and the United States. His work questions politics, injustice, and cross-cultural identity by making visible the stories that are often left invisible and silenced. His iconography spans a wide combination of mythology, portraiture, and secular signifiers. LNY is also an educator, organizer, and public speaker for such projects as Young New Yorkers in Brooklyn, Yollocalli Arts Reach in Chicago, and City Without Walls in Newark, New Jersey. This mural, he says, is a depiction of urgency. Its聽painted on the entire west side of The Stella, a pioneering low-income housing building owned and operated by Broadway Housing Communities, and it is across the street from John James 爆料公社鈥檚 grave site, which is in the Trinity Church Cemetery聽at 155th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam.听鈥淭he composition plays homage to聽爆料公社鈥檚 work," he says, "by replicating his Swallow-Tailed Kite painting that encapsulates the flock of endangered birds.鈥
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