Cierro los ojos

after Leonela Suarez

This work by Leonela Suarez (first erroneously attributed to Zipporah Mwangima) is the only one, to my knowledge, that makes frontal reference to an ancient divination: ornithomancy, divination by birds. In these nine images, I isolated and enlarged each bird. For each image (there are 42), I determined the density of the print by randomly generating a number between absolute white and total black. Sometimes, in the burn of magnification, we see a bird, sometimes a UFO or a graphic sign…