by Michael Dumas

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Influx: sparrows in the Louvre

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During a visit to the Louvre, I observed a single female sparrow fluttering high above the area containing classical sculpture. The contrast between this street urchin of a bird and the wonderful works of art struck me deeply. From time to time over the next few years I would think of that moment and had the feeling that a painting was waiting to be discovered if a relationship between a group of sparrows and the statues could be expressed as a narrative. The question 'What if the statues were aware of the presence of the birds?' provided the final conceptual notion to begin painting.

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