Last call of the Kauaʻi Ōʻō

A dreamlike interpretation of the extinct Kauaʻi ʻŌʻō, curled in grief, weeping. Its last call was recorded in 1987, a mating
song unanswered, echoing the species’ final moment. Driven to extinction by anthropogenic habitat loss, invasive
predators, and disease, the bird’s absence is a haunting reminder of the fragility of our world’s life and our impact on it.
Ripples across the head suggest the spreading consequences of forces beyond its control. The two patches of yellow at its
base and the beak’s curve recall the bird’s true form, while the rest dissolves into memory, an elegy for what is gone and
what remains only in echoes and dreams.