DEAD BABY BIRDS

This is a side-project concept I developed in 2021. I made a rare find of some baby pigeons on my balcony. I kept checking on them, watching them grow. Then one morning I found them dead – a predator bird had gotten to them. There was nothing left to do but to try and scoop their lifeless bodies into paper bags to get rid of them. As I was trying to move their corpses into the bag, the bird’s parents landed on the roof watching me doing this. A gut wrenchingly sad moment.

This cemented itself into my mind and I later used this memory to help me get over a really rough breakup experience. Ever since, I’ve been drawing these little guys now and then. Mixing the innocence and cuteness with the dark and sorrowful. As a sort of dramatic and ironic take on heavy or dark imagery.