| March 9, 2006 |
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Harri Kallio
Wander  through the galleries of Finnish artist Harri Kallio's work and find yourself eyeball-to-eyeball with long-extinct birds or delicate, pink-tinged moths. In "The Dodo and Mauritius Island, Imaginary Encounters," Kallio creates two life-size models of the ancient, flightless bird, and then sets the duo loose in the Dodo's real, one-time haunt. He poses his creations milling in the woods, stuffing their beaks with fruit, and canoodling by the stream. You can practically hear their squawking and flapping in these lush, weird photos. In another gallery, Kallio creates delicate, creepy, greatly magnified portraits of butterflies and moths. Looking through the creatures' "facial expressions and emotions," it's tempting to think that this is how aliens might look. (in Photographers) |
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