![]() ![]() "It also educates (and) draws your attention to nature. Piotr Nowacki, a life-long Warsaw resident, is a fan of the project, which he has visited several times and calls "a break from routine, somewhat abstract, surprising". Similarly, the egg - whose top is already speckled with bird droppings, to Rajkowska's amusement - is meant to be "surreal, unexpected and slightly out of touch with reality". The artist is also the creator of a massive fake palm tree that has for years added a tropical note to the Polish capital and even become a popular postcard landmark. "So we had to really rush to do the recording and put it back in the incubator," Rajkowska said. They came across "this crazy guy who is trying to revive old species of chickens" who allowed them to record in his lab as long as they kept the eggs warm. So I decided to find safe conditions," Rajkowska said. "An ornithologist told me that if I take an egg from the nest and then return it, the parents will not accept it. She teamed up with her musician partner for the recordings, though they do not come from a song thrush, as the stress of the process would have been enormous for a wild bird. Joanna Rajkowska's acoustic sculpture makes sounds like a chick about to hatch © Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP Basically the desperate life that is trying to get out of the egg." You can also hear all the movements and the chirping," she added. But also the heartbeat, which is three times faster than the human heart. So The Hatchling speaks," said Rajkowska. ![]() "Inside, instead of a bird, we have a lot of electronics, a lot of circuits and sound transducers. The colour is more intense than the real blue because the sculpture will inevitably fade in the sun. 'The Hatchling speaks'Īt around two metres (6.6 feet) high and three metres long, The Hatchling is a larger than life version of a song thrush's blue spotted egg. It's time to think about other species," she told AFP. "The idea was to bend people's bodies over something other than themselves," said Joanna Rajkowska, the artist behind the sculpture. Located at Five Corners Square - once home to an arena where animals would fight to the death - the acoustic installation titled The Hatchling is a call for empathy with other lifeforms in the era of climate change. It makes for an incredible experience," she said. "Don't hesitate to walk up to the egg and hug it. "This chick and the mini-pond next to it speak to a sensitivity to Warsaw's non-human residents," Warsaw deputy mayor Aldona Machnowska-Gora said at the unveiling. As they listen to the soft sounds of a baby bird hatching, a hooded crow cocks his head and sips from a shallow pool of water installed nearby. ![]()
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