A Confounding Mimicry

A Confounding Mimicry, 2016

4-channel sound for the Lincoln Park Conservatory's Fern Room, with 14 accompanying signs in English & Spanish

This sign is one of the more straightforward, simply reproducing an actual vintage print found by the artists. The print depicts a nightjar, a bird sometimes also known as the 'fern owl.' This species, in fact, lives in Chicago, and the artists know its evening call as treasured sound of summer.