The Bird Project 2006 – 2017
Photographs by Erik Berglin
Edited and designed and nail bound by Erik Berglin
Cover design by Lundgren+Lindqvist
Printed by Crimson, inkjet on 9 mm birch plywood.
Pages printed by Konstexpo, inkjet on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308 gram.
60 pages each 100 x 70 cm.
Total weight 21 kg (46 lbs).
Over a period of twelve years, Stockholm based artist Erik Berglin wheat-pasted 4982 hand cut images of birds in natural scale, in twelve cities around the world. Each bird was placed in a carefully selected location, and subsequently documented by the artist, who works with photography as his primary medium.
The project was inspired by the famous ornithologist John James Audubon’s (1785-1851) magnum opus; the monumental ‘Birds of America’, originally printed and published between 1827-1838. Birds of America contains 435 life-size watercolours of North American birds, all reproduced from hand-engraved plates. In homage to Audubon, Berglin also made a giant sized version of his book in an edition of 5+AP.