Birdhouse for
Ivory-Billed
Woodpecker
Year : 2022
Birdhouse for the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker is a part architecture, part designed object, and part sculpture piece built as a part of the “Birdhouse, Our House” exhibition at the Sullivan Fabrication Studio. While birdhouses revolve around a universal purpose of nesting, this object questions this meaning and its existence.
IN SEPTEMBER 2021,
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declared 23 species of birds, fish, and other species extinct. The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker once seen across the southern U.S. rostered in this list with extinction primarily due to hunting and deforestation. This object was made as a tribute to the I.B.W.P and to circle back about why birdhouses exist: For people to interact with wildlife or because birds can’t find a home in nature anymore?
