for the record, I have an obsession with Crows I developed over a period of years. all my friends are aware of it. I wrote Crow Dust Gathering Riddle • a sci fi graphic novel screen play about the crows takedown of the cyber system in 2064. I spent hours following them around and they followed me. at a certain point i could feed them. they’re real posers once they get a take on you. I can always hear them if they’re around. Crows are curious and smart. they live a long life seen from a perspective of the Z axis as well as X and Y. they fly anywhere they please.

I have given them a measure of intelligence superior to our own. they watch us with a curiously skeptical eye. use us for a cheap meal before flying up to perch on top of a flag pole 30 stories in the air. talking to friends at sunset. picking a place to hang for the night.

these are my portraits of them. playful and clever as ever.

photographs • paternostro