Storm winds have punched holes through migration

This piece is part of an invited response to Passerine by Kirsten Luckins, a series of epistolary poems which distil the process of grieving and remembering, employing the imagery of the natural world.

Phrases from Kirsten’s poems are encoded within each work using hundreds of pieces of origami, joined together in chains of Morse code.

Kirsten’s imagery of the sea and of birds also inspires the forms: the lines left in the sand by the retreating tide, the movement of air from a beating wing, or the intertwining paths taken by migrating birds.

Pages from vintage books about the sea are folded into origami chains which are then mounted on a book cover within an unglazed tray frame.