Magnetic Mother

"Magnetic Mother" attracts audiences to experience the pull of a comforting world of light and song, encouraging them to reflect on how instinctual, seemingly automatic processes in nature have been disrupted. Viewers are guided to touch the base of a lamp that awakens, illuminating the dark with cascades of avian silhouettes and an intimate musical soundtrack. A flock of birds glides across an array of hanging glass forms, dancing about a momentary, fluttering mosaic. Many migratory bird species navigate the world using the earth's magnetic field, an ability we call magnetoreception. As these birds are displaced and their behavioural and migratory patterns change, will their ability to orient themselves be forever altered?