This ongoing study documents Shinnecock and his family flock since first (2007) to most recent births of chicks (2020) … displaying life that can be sustained within Sandrow’s living art installation.
The Flock’s birth rate illustrates the impact of temperature changes.
Domesticated 10,000 years ago to a global presence of 20 Billion. Current research identifies chickens as symbolic of the transformation of the biosphere, a marker of the anthropocene in our times.
An estimated 31,440 (as of January 5 2022) eggs laid by hens during the projects’ trajectory. Those not used for breeding consumed by Sandrow and Skogsbergh, shared with family, friends, colleagues, neighbors, The Retreat and Shinnecock Indian Nation Food Pantry (Note 1).
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Sunday, June 10, 2007
Six Eggs laid by Gold Lace Hen Cleo (2007); Custom Egg Carton; Feather; Dozen Eggs laid by Shinnecock Family Flock Hens; quote by Plutarch; quote by Sandrow. documenting 56 clutches (50 Hens setting on eggs, 2 clutches incubated) resulted in 172 surviving chicks (as of 2020) since 2007
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Note 1: 3,138 eggs shared (January 23 - September 2021) with Shinnecock Nation Food Pantry (in addition to 1,800 shared March 2020 - September 2020).
"...the problem about the egg and the hen, which of them came first, was dragged into our talk, a difficult problem which gives investigators much trouble. And Sulla my comrade said that with a small problem, as with a tool, we were rocking loose a great and heavy one, that of the creation of the world." Plutarch, Table Talk, Moralia 120 AD
A Hen lays an Egg after light-sensitive cells behind her eyes message her ovary to release an ovum into the egg yolk. Fertilized by sperm, coated by albumen, encased in shell as the egg travels through the oviduct. This creative process encompasses twenty-four hours; as the rotation of Earth on its axis.
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