Leela Keshav


  Projects

      Archive of Stolen Seeds
      Birdscript
      Field Guide to the Botanical Imaginary
      Hauntings from the Sixth Extinction
      Stone Asemics  
      Seed Storytellers
      The Specimenisation of Sequoia
      The Seven Circles of Manoomin
      To Find a Waiting Fossil    
      Unmapping Landscape       

Workshops

      Upcoming
      Archive

Writing

      In print
      Online


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Birdscript

Birdscript is an experiment in translating birdsong into asemic – non-semantic – writing. Inspired by spectrograms recorded on Merlin Bird ID, an identification app, the drawings translate birdsong through charcoal and watercolour marks layered through risograph printing.