❋ Call of Raven Song
A project funded & supported by the Jupiter+ Legacy Programme
January - June 2026
Call of Raven Song is A DEVELOPING mixed-media EXPLORATION INTO corvid intelligence, communication, and HUMAN coexistence through a nuanced installation of curated research fragments.
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Field research, observing corvid behaviours across three key locations, will sit alongside reading in biological and ethological literature, ensuring the work remains responsive to both lived encounters and scientific research.
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Field notes, sound recordings and photographic studies. Will form the backbone for the later stages of the project.
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Experimentation with tactile analogue media (35mm film, vinyl-record audio and ceramic installation) resists digital detachment and invites tactility, interaction and decay.
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This projects outcomes are envisioned as an immersive, participatory environment where visitors move objects, rearrange fragments and temporarily inhabit a corvid network.
Feelings spark // like storms under wing
elation // deflation // expectation.
This waning feeling // This “life after death”
it holds little value // in your absence
I see them // I see you
& I am home.
BY PRIORITISING RESEARCH OVER finalised outcomes THROUGHOUT, allowing RESEARCH, RECORDINGS AND MATERIAL EXPLORATION and ceramic studies to guide my direction. This project asks how deeper attention to corvid sociality and folklore, shaped by observation, memory and place, might illuminate human relationships with others, lands and myths.
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Dundee City Centre
St. Andrews
Portree, Isle of Skye
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Analogue Photography
Audio Recording
Field Sketches
Field Notes
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Ceramics
Film
Projection
Vinyl and Cassette
Spoken and Written Word
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Marzluff, J.M. and Angell, T (2020) In the Company of Crows and Ravens. Narrated by D. Campbell. Available from: https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/In-the-Company-of-Crows-and-Ravens-Audiobook/1705240364 (Accessed: 18 December 2025).
van Dooren, T. (2019) The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds. New York: Columbia University Press
The project so far
THIS PROJECT IS A COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE, IF YOU’RE AN ARTIST, COMMUNITY PRACTITIONER, RESEARCHER OR CORVID FANATIC…
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CREDITS
Jupiter Artland for supporting this project through their artist’s residency, Jupiter+ Dundee Legacy.
The Inverness Darkroom at WASPS Studios, Inverness for offering ongoing support in teaching analogue photography and making the medium more accessable to all