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​David A. Parker, ‘Enskyment’ – 2014

David A. Parker's Enskyment features a sculpture made of birdseed that is a cast of the artist’s head. A motion sensing camera takes photos of birds that stop by for a meal, capturing the process of the sculpture being taken into the sky.
David writes: "The “Enskyment” series of photographs continues my engagement with life’s brevity as a way to appreciate the precious little time we do have. The camera documents the reduction of the sculpture by birds – in effect, the conversion of matter to air. The title is borrowed from a Robinson Jeffers poem:  our body exists as an assembly of materials gathered from outside of ourselves. For me, these images prompt several questions.  What happens when we imagine our body being dispersed back again?  Is the barrier between our body and the rest of the world so clearly defined?  Is willful submission to nature's processes in fact a chance at immortality? And perhaps most importantly: given that life is short, what should I be doing now?"

Responses: 

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10A. Enskyment works its way into writer Christianna Potter Hannum’s ‘The way you do one thing is the way you do everything’.

10B. Entry following 10A, in Christianna Potter Hannum’s memoir.

10C. Laris Kreslins
Christianna Potter Hannum and Emily Artinian attended a reading by Laris of Atlaidas/es., after sharing and discussing Christy’s writing about her adopted Latvian children’s relationship to language. 

10D. David A. Parker installed Enskyment at nearby The Christiana Motel. Postcards of the birds captured by the project’s motion sensor camera at Street Road were produced for sale at the front desk of the motel.

10E. The Latvian Society of Philadelphia membership card