Close up of Passenger Pigeons from Audubon’s Birds of America, 2010 October 28

The projected video loop close-up is the now extinct Passenger Pigeon, from John James Audubon’s The Birds of America: From Drawings Made in the United States and their Territories published in 1840. This image was featured in the bottom of Penrose Library’s main stairwell as Media Cluster #1, in the site-specific art installation, HYLAEA, at the University of Denver from October 14th, 2010- February 14th, 2011.