A MARRIAGE OF THE COSMIC AND THE DOMESTIC

A marvellous review by Steph of the Knife's "Colouring of Pigeons" over at the Samosa. As well as the suggestive way in which she describes the Andersson siblings' depiction of cross-generational evolution, I was struck by this "marriage of the cosmic and the domestic," and how birds are often used as a signifier for this marriage. From rather different ends of spectrum, Kate Bush and Olivier Messaien spring to mind - the bird seems to be the ultimate dialectical animal, seasonally migrating to far-off lands, but always returning to the seed-tray and the bird-bath.