OF BONDAGE & BUDGIES

OF BONDAGE & BUDGIES, 10.75 x 8.25 inches, 16 pages + cover, edition of 200, 2015. In 2015 with the help of Smurfy & RAF, my two English budgies, we raised 16 baby budgies and I shot these images on my iPhone 5C, and made this book of digital collages exploring ideas of feathers & leather, freedom & restraint, and soft & hard. "Its images speak for the savagely beautiful poetry of Hug's work. It required multiple degrees of engagement both emotional and visual. After a few days of looking, I didn’t know who were more fragile, the birds or the human figures—a gut wrenching realization." – Philip Tan