Birds eating figs in the neighbour's yard (Factors and Figures)

2015

Shown at The Physics Room and RAMP gallery from the exhibition Thinking Feeling 2015 at The Physics Room in Christchurch and RAMP gallery in Hamiton. Curated by Paula Booker.

"Lever shares [Joanna Margaret] Paul's interest in nature with his first film Birds eating figs in the neighbour's yard (2015). The camera focuses on a fig tree being gently blown by the wind while birdscome and go. Like a plein air watercolourist chasing nature's own voice, Lever hones in on the garden, the light and, perhaps most importantly, the movement of the plants.

— Peter Vangioni, Thinking Feeling: Ziggy Lever and Joanna Margaret Paul exhibition text commisioned for The Physics Room 2015.

Read more about "Thinking Feeling" here:
Peter Vangioni: Thinking Feeling (pdf)
Time, Time Space: a conversation between Paula Booker and Laura Preston. Comparative Media Arts Journal, December 2018.
Ziggy Lever in conversation with Paula Booker about Thinking Feeling, an exhibition with works by Ziggy Lever and the late Joanna Margaret Paul. (The Physics Room 2015)

Related Projects:
National Park (or the world is not flat. It is incredibly spiky)