Andy Holden b. 1982
The title 'Auguries' refers to the ancient Roman practice of using birds to divine the future. curved augural sta to interpret the will of the gods by reading the ight and songs of birds. The work draws on the book Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, a key treatise that helped establish the modern environmental movement. By noticing a decline in bird song Carson was able to extrapolate that the use of the chemical DDT was thinning eggshells and precipitating a fall in the number of birds.