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Parrots and the Wildlife Trade

These images were created as a visual response to research I’ve been conducting on the trade of parrots and the experiences of parrots in captivity. This work will be part of a show on the wildlife trade hosted by a partnership between IFAW and Creature Conserve. The show will run from July 17 to August 7 in Gallery 55 in Providence, Rhode Island.

 These images address three themes:

The treatment of parrots as material resources rather than sentient beings. How a parrot’s social and environmental needs are met in the wild vs captivity. The changing and expanding identity of a parrot as it is passed through multiple homes.

You can view high quality versions of these images on my website.

Merab Abramishvili

Macys’s Galleria, Dallas, Texas

From The Best of Store Designs (1987)

David S. Herrerias - Garbhagriha’s Secrets

 On Death. Part 1. On the Tracks, etching and aquatint on paper Max Klinger, German artist and sculptor, 1857-1920. Albertina, Vienna, Austria.

  Klinger explored the grotesque and fantastic and influenced Edvard Munch and Salvador Dali among others. {{PD-1923}}

Henri-Léopold Lévy Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist

19th century

Odilon Redon (1840 - 1916, French) The Golden Cell / (The Blue Profile), 1892. (The British Museum, London)

Muraoka Kimio (1966, Japanese) White Hand through the Window

Mickaël Bourgoin…

Les Chants de Maldoror (2007) - by Corominas

From An album of paintings from Yuanxiangguan, Volume 27, Jin Yuan

The City of the Plains: “The smoke of the Cities rose up as the smoke of a great Furnace” - Albert Goodwin

A Forest as Enchanted with a Firey Castle, Defended by Daemons (1763 - Etching / Engraving) - by Edward Rooker and Paul Sandby, after John Collins

Dawn (1919) - Thomas Edwin Mostyn

From Les Assiègés de Compiègne 1430 by A. Robida, 1906.