Birds, Art, Life: A Year of Observations
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Birds, Art, Life: A Year of Observations
14.99 €
In Birds, Art, Life: A Year of Observations, Kio McLeer embarks on an ornithological journey through a big city and along the way reflects on the nature of creativity and the search for a meaningful life.
Finding herself in a difficult life situation, the narrator discovers the world of "birding," birdwatching. On the one hand, an essay exploring our relationship with the natural world, on the other hand, a candid experience of autofiction, an exercise in the art of sightings and a diary of observations about herself. Birds become for Maclear what mushrooms were for John Cage, butterflies for Vladimir Nabokov, or bees for Sylvia Plath - an external stimulus to an inner journey. On a deeper level, Maclear raises questions about how we are shaped and nurtured by our parallel passions, and how we can come to cherish not only the pristine natural places in the world, but also the patchy urban spaces in which we live.
Finding herself in a difficult life situation, the narrator discovers the world of "birding," birdwatching. On the one hand, an essay exploring our relationship with the natural world, on the other hand, a candid experience of autofiction, an exercise in the art of sightings and a diary of observations about herself. Birds become for Maclear what mushrooms were for John Cage, butterflies for Vladimir Nabokov, or bees for Sylvia Plath - an external stimulus to an inner journey. On a deeper level, Maclear raises questions about how we are shaped and nurtured by our parallel passions, and how we can come to cherish not only the pristine natural places in the world, but also the patchy urban spaces in which we live.
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