Avian Scatoloty
Book project
Interesting Bird Poo
The more you look the more you see. It's as if Jackson Pollock were still alive and wandering the streets with a pot of white and blue paint, splashing randomly as he goes. The splodges are ubiquitous and unremarkable but when you stop and look, really look, a pareidolic transformation begins, rather like the forms we imagine in clouds.
When processed, the images reveal colours and detail which are not obvious at first glance. A kind of alchemy happens revealing mythical beasts, Neolithic, Giacometti or Frink like humans and mythical beasts of land, sea and air.
It is startling how people see such different things and once you see something, you can't un-see it. But there are of course no wrong answers in this Rorschach like exercise. A workout for the imagination. Perhaps bird poo should be taught in art colleges.
These images have not been altered by AI and the detritus is shown as found. They are all taken in one London park but not for want of trying elsewhere. I have tried wetlands and leafy central parks with and without lakes but always come back to the same park. I don't know why my park is best. Perhaps there is fruit. The people there think I'm mad.
Peter Searle
