The Desire for Birds Provokes the Desire for Stones uses the adversarial relationship between birds and stones as created by the idiom "to kill two birds with one stone" to examine the desire for things that are perpetually out of reach and not what they seem.
Repeated bombing runs produce a unique type of destruction upon a landscape. Gold leafed munitions, promises of wealth and prosperity, burst upon the hills and coat them in developments; suburban housing tracts, parking lots, and strip malls erupt in the wake of golden plumes of smoke. After they have run out of land the lay waste to, the bombers begin to attack each other, the violence of convenience and expansion turning upon itself.
The transformative experience of being trapped under the ice, under the weight of emotions, grief, and circumstance. The winter landscape and sound captured from beneath a frozen pond sets us to gazing upward into the sky as the we sink below the ice sheet and then emerge on the other side.