Description
In Birds Art Life, writer Kyo Maclear embarks on a yearlong, big city adventure chasing after birds, and along the way offers a luminous meditation on the nature of creativity and the quest for a good and meaningful life.
For Vladimir Nabokov, it was butterflies. For John Cage, it was mushrooms. For Sylvia Plath, it was bees. Each of these artists took time away from their work to become observers of natural phenomena. In 2012, Kyo Maclear met a local Toronto musician with an equally captivating side passion—he had recently lost his heart to birds. Curious about what prompted this young urban artist to suddenly embrace nature, Kyo decides to follow him for a year and find out.
Birds Art Life explores the particular madness of loving and chasing after birds in a big city. Intimate and philosophical, moving with ease between the granular and the grand view, it celebrates the creative and liberating effects of keeping your eyes and ears wide open, and explores what happens when you apply the core lessons of birding to other aspects of life. On a deeper level, it takes up the questions of how we are shaped and nurtured by our parallel passions, and how we might come to cherish not only the world’s pristine natural places but also the blemished urban spaces where most of us live.
Auction History
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Highest bidder was: Okayjt
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October 4, 2020 8:59 pm | $136.00 | Okayjt | |
October 4, 2020 8:40 pm | $135.00 | ali.tunnicliff | |
October 4, 2020 8:27 pm | $131.00 | Okayjt | |
October 4, 2020 8:14 pm | $130.00 | ali.tunnicliff | |
October 4, 2020 8:09 pm | $123.00 | katmar | |
October 4, 2020 6:17 pm | $122.00 | ali.tunnicliff | |
October 4, 2020 4:47 pm | $121.00 | katmar | |
October 4, 2020 12:01 pm | $120.00 | don.head | |
October 2, 2020 8:50 pm | $101.00 | katmar | |
October 2, 2020 8:09 pm | $100.00 | ali.tunnicliff | |
October 2, 2020 11:15 am | $96.00 | katmar | |
October 1, 2020 9:55 pm | $95.00 | ali.tunnicliff | |
October 1, 2020 9:11 pm | $91.00 | katmar | |
October 1, 2020 8:22 pm | $90.00 | ali.tunnicliff | |
October 1, 2020 4:57 pm | $84.00 | katmar | |
October 1, 2020 4:57 pm | $83.00 | katmar | |
October 1, 2020 2:11 pm | $82.00 | florencemccambridge | |
October 1, 2020 11:37 am | $81.00 | katmar | |
October 1, 2020 11:28 am | $80.00 | shannon.balla | |
September 30, 2020 9:08 pm | $76.00 | katmar | |
September 30, 2020 7:51 pm | $73.00 | paul.russell6 | |
September 30, 2020 6:29 pm | $72.00 | katmar | |
September 29, 2020 5:24 pm | $70.00 | maivy.a.nguyen | |
September 29, 2020 11:17 am | $65.00 | Susana Molinolo | |
September 29, 2020 8:58 am | $60.00 | heididarroch | |
September 29, 2020 2:12 am | $55.00 | professortsnape | |
September 28, 2020 3:40 pm | $50.00 | Susana Molinolo | |
September 28, 2020 3:38 pm | $45.00 | professortsnape | |
September 28, 2020 2:44 pm | $40.00 | Susana Molinolo | |
September 28, 2020 2:36 pm | $35.00 | carrianneleung | |
September 28, 2020 2:26 pm | $30.00 | Susana Molinolo | |
September 28, 2020 12:02 pm | $25.00 | carrianneleung | |
September 28, 2020 11:01 am | $20.00 | jrmcconvey | |
September 28, 2020 9:00 am | Auction started |