parliament of owls
2013, 16’ H x 7’ W
Mixed media including 72 glass lenses with battery operated candles, utility pole
Mixed media including 72 glass lenses with battery operated candles, utility pole
Photo credit: Chris Hardy, 2018
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Parliament of Owls is a work that encapsulates in equal measures Munro’s resourcefulness and wit. The artist was given a collection of remnant glass lenses which immediately reminded him of owls’ eyes, and more specifically the owls described in C.S. Lewis’s novel The Silver Chair. It was in reading these passages as a young boy that Munro first learned that a gathering of owls was called a parliament, an amusing factoid that stuck with him for life. He knew immediately these lenses would become his own parliament, but they needed a perch. Happily, he had recently taken down the electrical cables near his home and saved the old electrical pole, which is now the centerpiece of this work.
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