Hope Sandrow wrote September 30, 2007:
Am writing about an unexpected turn in the life of Shinnecock, Hens Cleo and Chloe. Last week on September 11, Hen Cleo went "broody" again and began "setting" on her and Chloe's eggs just three months after their first clutch hatched.
I'm inviting you to join me (once again) in observing their lives unfold in front of my surveillance camera sited in Cleo’s nest, to view streaming images transmitted in real time at http://hopesandrow.viewnetcam.com:5000
As playing a role in this creative process provides a firsthand perspective to philosophical queries - as apparently the question of hens and eggs has a history of controversy:
"...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
As well as a proactive stance towards timely preservation and conservation issues important to our east end community.This artwork documents my action of creating an art installation and land for chickens to live freely, choose mates and raise their young. Rather than enslavement in "modern" farming production practices that are a major contributor to global warming.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are preparing a Hummer car with a driver wearing a chicken suit and banner proclaiming a 2006 UN report, which concluded that raising animals for food generates more greenhouse gases than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world combined.
Leonard Doyle, Washington Post, August 30, 2007
