Birds on Wires
By
Chris Kresser BIRDS ON WIRES • CHRIS KRESSER
“City life is millions of people being lonesome together.”
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- Henry David Thoreau
hey say most people either love the city or hate it. Not me. I love it and hate it.
The city is defined by contrast. Beauty and ugliness, pleasure and pain, hope and despair all rub elbows together, jostling for position in our hearts and minds. If the city were a person, it would be schizophrenic. My neighborhood is strewn with telephone wires. They criss-cross the houses and streets like a dark, sinister web. Obtrusive and ugly, I’ve silently resented their presence, wishing they would disappear. Yet as I began to pay closer attention, I noticed that the wires provide a resting place for the birds whose song I have come to enjoy so much. The birds that bring life to a lifeless network of wires, metal and concrete. Birds and wires. Isolation and communication. Natural and man-made. The birds and the wires they perch on are the visual meeting ground for the tensions I feel everywhere around me.
BIRDS ON WIRES • CHRIS KRESSER
May 29, 2008
BIRDS ON WIRES • CHRIS KRESSER
BIRDS ON WIRES • CHRIS KRESSER
BIRDS ON WIRES • CHRIS KRESSER
BIRDS ON WIRES • CHRIS KRESSER
BIRDS ON WIRES • CHRIS KRESSER
BIRDS ON WIRES • CHRIS KRESSER
BIRDS ON WIRES • CHRIS KRESSER
BIRDS ON WIRES • CHRIS KRESSER
BIRDS ON WIRES • CHRIS KRESSER
BIRDS ON WIRES • CHRIS KRESSER
BIRDS ON WIRES • CHRIS KRESSER
BIRDS ON WIRES • CHRIS KRESSER
BIRDS ON WIRES • CHRIS KRESSER
BIRDS ON WIRES • CHRIS KRESSER
Birds On Wires Images and text by Chris Kresser First Acrobat PDF Edition May 2008 Published and produced by Chris Kresser Oakland, CA The images in Birds On Wires were photgraphed with a Ricoh GX100 and a Canon 5D in May of 2008. This PDF portfolio was produced using Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Acrobat Professional.
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BIRDS ON WIRES • CHRIS KRESSER