The artist has identied species of songbirds with only a few remaining pairs. These are songs of birds precariously on the edge of extinction. The recordings of these rare songs have been converted from sound waves to create rounded three-dimensional sculptural forms through a process of 3D printing and precise casting to create a series of monuments to songs that have almost disappeared; totems that will endure after the birds that sang them have gone. By giving these songs a permanent form, these sculptures will be a reminder that not everything will persist through the current environmental emergency. The species depicted through songs are: sulu hornbill, slender billed curlew, south island kokako, and Californian condor.

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.