Started in 2022, the series Falling acts as a point of entry for the viewer of the loss and wanton destruction of birds and their habitat. Holding birds as a cultural symbol of peace and strength throughout human civilization, our current behaviors of profit and comfort pivots to war with fires, drought, habitat loss and floods.  

The Seventh-Generation exhibition presents an opportunity to engage the front.  Selecting two images from the Falling series, Impact c 24 and Fleeing c24, archival prints on Arches paper is a layered meditation. Its fragile nature slips, shifts and reappears suggesting geological time. The limited archival prints are hand signed leaves of the Falling series of origin: burnt organic habitat and abandoned nests on torched wood.

Noreen Dean Dresser and Absent Winged Collaborator C24

Dimension: 28"H x 45"W

Each leaf is signed and layered 4 inches between culminating in Leaf Four from Impact C 24

Absent Winged Collaborator

Media: Fire drawing, Wisconsin/Iowa nest of horsehair, smoke, ash, feathers, pens, inks, acrylic inks on torched wood panel

Dimension: 36” H x 48” W

Absent Winged Collaborator

Media: Fire drawing, Wisconsin/Iowa nest of twigs, smoke, ash, pens, acrylic inks,  torched wood panel

Dimension: 36” H x 24” W

Absent Winged Collaborator

Medium: Fire drawing, Wisconsin/Iowa nest, smoke, ash, feather, pencils, pens,  acrylic inks, on torched wood panel

Dimension: 36” H x 24” W

Absent Winged Collaborator

Medium: Fire drawing, Robin nest, shamrocks, ash, feather, pencils, pens, acrylic inks, on torched wood panel

Dimension: 36” H x 24” W

Absent Winged Collaborator

Medium: Fire drawing, Robin nest, smoke, ash, feather, pens, acrylic inks, on torched wood panel

Dimension: 48” H x 36” W

Absent Winged Collaborator

Medium: Fire drawing, feathers, smoke, ash, pens, acrylic inks, on torched wood panel

Dimension: 48” H x 36”W

Absent Winged Collaborators
Medium: Fire drawing, NYS Robin nest, egg and failed chick, feathers, leaves, ash, acrylic inks, on torched wood panel
(Nest gifted from L. Victoria Coronato, D.V.M)
Dimension: 60” H x 40” W

Absent Winged Collaborators
Medium: Fire drawing, NYS Robin Nest, burned feathers, rye berries, leaves, ash, acrylic inks, on torched wood panel
(Nest gifted from L. Victoria Coronato, D.V.M)
Dimension: 60” H x 40” W

Winged Collaborator killed on Impact NYC

Medium: Fire drawing, Nest, feathers retrieved from dead birds, burned leaves, ash, acrylic inks, on torched wood panel
(Nest gifted from Virginia Yearling)
Dimension: 48” H x 36” W X 4” D

Winged Collaborator

Medium: Fire drawing, Nest, feathers retrieved from dead birds, burned leaves, ash, acrylic inks, on torched wood panel
(Nest gifted from Virginia Yearling)
Dimension: 48” H x 36” W X 4” D

Started in 2022, the series Falling acts as a point of entry for the viewer of the loss and wanton destruction of birds and their habitat. Holding birds as a cultural symbol of peace and strength throughout human civilization, our current behaviors of profit and comfort pivots to war with fires, drought, habitat loss and floods.  

The Seventh-Generation exhibition presents an opportunity to engage the front.  Selecting two images from the Falling series, Impact c 24 and Fleeing c24, archival prints on Arches paper is a layered meditation. Its fragile nature slips, shifts and reappears suggesting geological time. The limited archival prints are hand signed leaves of the Falling series of origin: burnt organic habitat and abandoned nests on torched wood.

Noreen Dean Dresser and Absent Winged Collaborator C24

Dimension: 28"H x 45"W

Each leaf is signed and layered 4 inches between culminating in Leaf Four from Impact C 24