I've been always concern about this other part that is alive and is different than humans, I've always curious about the way it develop and how it survive and remain with the years. I've been aways interested in birds since my mother bought 2 and they were living home. I very much like them but those kind of animals as everything in nature is very vulnerable and timid.
When I went in 2011 to Helsinki to work with an artist, I saw the birds acting there in a free way, they seem to be really living. It was peaceful and amazing to observe them, I got another impression. I realized those animals, or plants or things were not different than me, because they need a place, a freedom and they develop a life. So as the experience was so rich I decide to capture them in this paper being the only material I had at the moment and try to have them closer to feel them, understand them and why not own them, because as humans thats what we like, but knowing I was not going to harm anyone or affect any life. As I enjoyed this so much I started to learn a lot about them and when I went back to Colombia I saw many birds in my city, being real animals. It open a new unvierse and started to appreciate more and respect more.
My interest is this sad relation from us as humans with the things that live around us, and trough my work I wanted just to said, look there outside are real things, that are beautiful, that are alive.
I was never looking to make a perfect bird, because I was more interested in the experience of relating with all this different animals. how is to experience to be closer to a tucan, or a flamingo, because i know in my normal life I cant do that. And by the time doing this work day by day I just reach to make them better and more realistic, which makes me happy.
Text.-Diana Beltran Herrera.
