“Meridian is a great circle of the celestial sphere passing through its poles to the zenith of a given place”
This is the Websters definition of Meridian, it can also be defined as a line drawn on a map to show position of place.
Ravens are harbingers of knowledge, of death, of transformation. They are portals into another place. I think that any park is ‘another place’ because it is separate from a home and work existence. It gives permission to actually be and experience an ‘elsewhere’ in our lives and perhaps convene with other forms of life.
My idea was to make work that would suggest a blend and coming together of human with bird, where it becomes impossible to disconnect the two different entities. For me it is an entirely appropriate work to have in a park because it makes people stop, look and think about what they are actually seeing. It is play on nature as humans will visit and animals will inhabit a space such as a park. The frayed edges are a nod to the unraveling of the human into the bird form, it also suggests a vulnerability that we all possess when confronted with the venerable Raven.
The Raven pieces should not be viewed as raven overwhelming the human form. They could be construed as symbiosis of man and animal or it can be read as man elevating himself above his quotient existence.
