I conceptualized, created, and completed this project during my three week art residency at Proyecto'Ace in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The story follows the life of a homing pigeon, who unlike other pigeons, leaves his home and what he knows, to work in a world delivering packages of no value to people with no heads. He is rewarded for his ambition with a life in a golden cage, delivering messages for heads that are not connected to the bodies they try to lead. He has a choice at this point, to be comfortable with his “reward” in life, or to face the conflict that follows promoting a different way of being.

The story concludes with the melting of the golden cages to join the heads and bodies, that the gold may highlight the places where people have been broken, for this is the history that makes us who we are, and therefore beautiful.

You can read more about this project and my time at Proyecto'Ace here.

Many thanks to Proyecto'Ace, for having me for this residency, to artist Barita Vincenti and master printer Adriana Moracci for your invaluable help printing the edition.