Birdsong

Welsh slate, 2004
h.69cm, w.82cm, d.1.8cm.

Onomatopœic words taken from a number of ornithological reference sources, these phonetic descriptions of the sound of birdsong relate to the way language develops as an imaginative expression of the experience of the senses. The sounds here can be interpreted quite clearly as the calls of the Wagtail, the Great Tit, the Blackbird, the House Sparrow, the Blue Tit, the Chaffinch, the Garden Warbler, the Thrush, the Goldfinch, the Chiffchaff, the Robin, the Swallow, the Dunnock, and the House Martin respectively.