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Mimico
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2014 (Creation)
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- Zbitnew, Anne
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- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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2016.011.01a-r: Art Photograph
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2016.011.01a: Art Photograph
Colour vertical photograph. The left top corner is a triangular white background and the bottom right corner is a triangular black background. Between the two triangles are diagonal brown lines with some white detailing. The image is within a black frame.
2016.011.01b: Art Photograph
Colour vertical photograph. The left bottom corner is a white background and the left side fades into reddish-brown. The almost all of rest of the image is grey-ish brown and out of focus. Near the top right corner is an eye with a yellow iris and diagonally down towards the centre is an in focus line of feathers. The image is within a black frame.
2016.011.01c: Art Photograph
Colour vertical photograph. The top is an image of two grey feathers horizontally across the picture. The rest of the image is a white background. The image is within a black frame.
2016.011.01d: Art Photograph
Colour vertical photograph. The background of the image is a white-ish grey. The rest of the image shows a three-toed brown skinned foot diagonally across the page. The image is within a black frame.
2016.011.01e: Art Photograph
Colour vertical photograph. The right top corner is a triangular white background. The rest of the image is a mostly out of focus image of grey with a part focused at the front which appears to be a feather. The image is within a black frame.
2016.011.01f: Art Photograph
Colour vertical photograph. The bottom left corner is a triangular white background. The rest of the image is a partial shot of a birds head. The top of the head is grey and white feathers. The bottom of the head (near the bottom right) is reddish-brown feathers. Near the centre at the top of the image, there is an eye with a red iris. The image is within a black frame.
2016.011.01g: Art Photograph
Colour vertical photograph. The image is divided into eight equal vertical sections. The colour of the sections are as follows (from left to right): white, red, black, grey, blue-grey, light blue, orange, and pink. The image is within a black frame.
2016.011.01h: Art Photograph
Colour vertical photograph. The image shows multiple brick coloured feathers with the ones in the foreground being in focus and the ones closer to the right side are unfocused. The image is within a black frame.
2016.011.01i: Art Photograph
Colour vertical photograph. The The left top corner is a triangular white background. The rest of the image is od grey feathers with some purple detailing and some reddish-brown feathers at the bottom right corner. The image is within a black frame.
2016.011.01j: Art Photograph
Colour vertical photograph. The background of the image is white. There are two bird heads – one art the top which is mainly out of focus and one at the bottom that is in focus. Both heads have brown feathers with some white detailing and some grey mixed in on the top of its head. The beak is black and the iris of the eye is red. The image is within a black frame.
2016.011.01k: Art Photograph
Colour vertical photograph. The left side of the image is a reddish-brown colour. The right is dark brown with some lighter brown lines. The reddish and dark brown create a triangle and it is white-ish grey in the remaining space. Extending through the middle of the page from the top, there is a brown triangle with a black tip. The image is within a black frame.
2016.011.01l: Art Photograph
Colour vertical photograph. The background of the image is out of focus with a redish-orange circle surrounded by brown. At the bottom right corner, there is a circle of black behind another circle of reddish-orange. The image is within a black frame.
2016.011.01m: Art Photograph
Colour vertical photograph. The left and right side of the image are black/brown and mostly out of focus except for a bit of a feather in focus vertically on both. Both sides create a triangle and it is white-ish grey in the remaining space. The image is within a black frame.
2016.011.01n: Art Photograph
Colour vertical photograph. The bottom right of the image is a bird’s head with dark grey feathers and a red iris. The top left corner has a feather that is brown and grey in focus. The rest of the image is a white background. The image is within a black frame.
2016.011.01o: Art Photograph
Colour vertical photograph. The bottom centre of the image has a triangular black shape with light brown at the tip. The top left and the bottom two corners are black. The rest of the image is a white background. The image is within a black frame.
2016.011.01p: Art Photograph
Colour vertical photograph. The background of the image is white in the centre and black around the corners and its out of focus. The rest of the image is partly in focus and shows two black skinny four toed feet with long nails. The image is within a black frame.
2016.011.01q: Art Photograph
Colour vertical photograph. The background of the image is pink on the left and white on the right with some black at the bottom and its out of focus. The rest of the image is partly in focus and shows two light brown skinny two toed feet with long nails. The image is within a black frame.
2016.011.01r: Art Photograph
Colour vertical photograph. The right top corner is a triangular white background and the left bottom corner is a triangular black beige. Between the two triangles are diagonal brown lines with some white and black detailing. The image is within a black frame.
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The extinct passenger pigeon is not seen as a whole as it does not exist. The name Mimcio is derived from the Ojibwe word omiimiikaa meaning “abundant with wild pigeons”. In the spring, the birds would migrate to Ontario from the southern United States in flocks so great that the sky over the town of Mimico would be darkened for hours, even days at a time. The forests bordering Mimico Creek were a nesting place and trees would host up to 20 nests of birds, with branches breaking due to the weight of the birds. The passenger pigeon was a significant part of the Indigenous peoples’ diet and they were selectively hunted, smoked, dried, and preserved for the winter. At the time of European settlement, de-forestation removed the nesting grounds and the birds were first hunted to excess to feed the growing populations and hen overhunted for sport. The very last passenger pigeon, named Martha, died in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo on September 1, 1914.
Mimico was inspired by Nazia Habiba. Access to the Passenger Pigeon specimens was provided by Mark Peck and the Royal Ontario Museum.