MYNAS Most of the dancers were

Most of the dancers were in the twilight of their lives in terms of age

and solarized gelatin silver prints

Though the passage of time is one of the most palpable tensions at work in these photographs

birds are a metaphor for her photography—for the ability to fly into freedom while remaining

Published 2024

MYNAS Most of the dancers wereAt 7pm every day, thousands of Javan Mynas descend onto trees along Orchard Road, a major shopping and tourist district in Singapore. They have been the bane of retailers and shoppers for the past few years, dirtying pavements with their droppings and emitting a ferocious noise with their collective squawking. Great congregations of Javan Mynas are not uncommon in Singapore. A colonising species, the Indonesian bird was first introduced to Singapore