This work by Bryony Dunne is a playful exploration of the relationship between humans and nature. The two ceramic bird legs refer to the many migrants on Ruigoord, both people and animals. Passing migratory birds also travel on to other places on earth. Like people, many of the bird species that temporarily stop here during the year make journeys to places elsewhere on the planet.

The Sky Only Welcomes Those with Wings stems from an ongoing investigation into the intertwining of human-fashioned systems and non-human life. It concerns themes of migration, border ecologies and divination to explore the intersecting perspectives of humans and birds, and was also recently published by the artist under the same title.

With this work, Dunne extends these themes to explore how the community in Ruigoord relates to movement, exchange and circulation. The work offers a reminder of the interdependence between humans and nature.

Artist and filmmaker Bryony Dunne (1984, Ireland) dances with the overlap between documentary film, cinema, photography and installation. Through research projects, she challenges ingrained anthropocentric and speciesist attitudes through imaginative and informative narratives. Stories that depict human's problematic but essential relationship to the natural world. She works internationally and is currently based in the Netherlands as an artist in residence at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht.