Flock

2007

The namesake of the exhibit, “Flock,” resembles a wall of framed portraiture in a patrician home. These fine frames suggest old portraits of generations past. The thick glass refracts through a hazy and bubbled interior of yellow and sepia. Behind the glass in each frame, a bronze substrate is attached. On the backside of the glass, an etching of barn swallows in flight shows through against the shiny metal. There are eight of these frames, and, hung on the wall together, they suggest a cluster of windows made from 18-inch-wide emerald cut gemstones. Rogers etched the barn swallows large enough so that only one or two birds fit in each frame, suspended in a clouded, translucent sky as though swarming from an unseen barn in the backyard of a deserted farmhouse.