Two rafts were walked along the tideline from Queenscliff to Shelley as part of the Manly Arts Festival.
These are rafts.
They are made from bird spikes.
The bird spikes are sold as a ‘humane’ form of species control.
We install bird spikes on building ledges, signs and lights to prevent birds from landing.
Though beguiling in gleam and form, they embody an unthinkable hostility toward the other.
The assumption of the right of aggression toward another species insulates us from grasping the aggression of these objects.
Look to the bird that flies past you just now and to the person who stands quietly beside you.
