CORVUS REX
Old clothes upon old sticks to scare a bird – W. B. Yeats
In CORVUS REX, scarecrow and corvid are presented in separate pictures. They are the nemesis of each other yet they are symbiotic and share a narrative which encompasses themes of hope, fear, threat, benevolence, greed, loneliness and genesis.
The scarecrow is established with human features and characteristics to present a hybrid figure. Single entities of sticks and stuffed rags are attached to wooden frame-works and placed in settings bathed with the numinous light of an otherworldly envi-ronment. These beings have specific, if mysterious, iden-tities. They are male or female, with human faces gazing im-passively at the viewer. A hu-man hand reaches through a hole in the rag; a real leg appears beside a stick limb.
Absurd, beautiful, comical or sinister, the solitary scarecrow watches the world with eyes both patient and protesting, aware of the paradox of its own being – tethered in hu-manity and brother to the incorporeal wind.
