BLINK is an ongoing series that engages the materiality of objects and art as a way of archiving nature, with a particular focus on the macaw. The bird becomes both subject and symbol: once vibrant in its natural habitat, it is increasingly encountered through images, commodities, and decorative motifs. The work reflects on a world driven by accelerated production at the expense of ecological stability, where the pressures of capitalist expansion and industrialised processes cause to irreversible environmental decline.
Within this context, the series explores the irony of kitsch and digital media, they preserve by design yet often reduce living forms to surface, spectacle, or sentimentality. Both these mediums are definitively long-lasting, yet their production directly contributes to the decline of such. BLINK inhabits this paradox, asking how ecological tragedy is mediated, packaged, and consumed in ways that mask its urgency.
The works critique the transformation of lived nature into spectacle, where beauty is extracted and re-presented as ornament, decorum, or nostalgic trace. By drawing attention to this process, the series highlights how consumer desire can both mourn and exploit loss—producing cycles where the natural world is simultaneously idealised, commodified, and erased.
BLINK
REBORN, 2023-2024, Acrylic, Alcohol Marker, Gouache, Graphite, Ink on Paper, 297mm x 420mm