"Birds Eye View" is a mixed media sculpture that depicts a robin with the head of an old-timey security camera. The work is meant to make viewers feel unnerved by who's watching them and how they're being tracked. Surveillance exists in every part of our lives, from cameras tracking who's entering and leaving Detroit to advertisers and scammers tracking your search history and data. The work channels the feeling of being watched that many feel and challenges the viewer to think about how much privacy they really hold in public and online spaces. By wrapping the form of a bird, something the majority of people hear or encounter everyday, into such an obvious sign of spectatorship causes reflection in its viewers.

Artistic Process

The bird section of the sculpture was needle felted, a process that utilizes a barbed needle to entangled woolen fibers together in order to make a form, and the camera was constructed from cardboard.