MOONBIRD

Kite flown for the Red Knot at Canaveral National Seashore

We are, collectively, witnessing meaningful changes in life on our planet. Climate change makes acute the awareness of impermanence and wonder, as well as the wild and fierce power of nature and the way she is responding to her treatment.

In response, I made a Moonbird kites of silk and bamboo- to fly in Canaveral National Seashore-about 50 miles east of my current home. Moonbirds stop here or near here to refuel on their migration in route between Tierra Del Fuego, and the Canadian Arctic. Additionally, juvenile, injured or elderly birds overwinter here. This spot is near the place my family landed in Florida in 1768 as indentured servants on an indigo plantation in New Smyrna Beach.

The sand on the beach has been 100 feet above sea level and 300 feet below. While it is at sea level today, eventually, the shoreline will be under water once again.

We flew the kite in Early September, during their southern migration.

The gesture of flying a kite here is an expression of my shared interaction with the changing landscape and our mutual vulnerability to the cascading effects of climate change.