Poo-tee-weet

Poo-tee-weet is an exploration of freedom as a concept that eludes any attempt at fixation. Black and white shots of birds losing clarity in flight and colour photographs of museum stuffed animals, perfect to the point of deceptiveness, create a double portrait of a single phenomenon: a freedom that does not require our recognition.

The birds here are eternal observers. Their presence (be it a moment before disappearing into the clouds or a frozen pose behind the glass) is a timeless act of witnessing. They record wars and revolutions without slowing down; they experience ecosystem catastrophes by shifting habitats; their effigies experience empires by maintaining in immobility the illusion of readiness for take-off. This is their unconditionality: they do not evaluate, they do not participate, but they do not turn away.

The project offers a view from the outside, the one that remains when our dramas end. The birds do not save or blame. They are simply there: in the sky, in museum windows, in the borders of the frame. Their way of being free is not in escape, but in the ease with which they belong to nothing. By photographing the scarecrows as the living, and the living as the elusive shadows, I discover: freedom begins not with overcoming boundaries, but with the realisation that we are already outside them. These spread wings behind the glass are not a defeat, but an instruction: it is possible to fly without moving, if we remember that the earth’s gravity is only an arrangement.