Intro/How-To with Ash & Pallavi
The first meeting of the Skowhegan Bird Club, presented Thursday, April 29, 2021
Ash Ferlito (A ‘12) & Pallavi Sen (A ‘17) discuss their relationship to birdwatching (birding), how to get started with apps and resources, and the group introduce themselves and why they decided to join the Bird Club.
Pallavi Sen
Pallavi Sen is from Bombay, India. She works with installation, printmaking, textiles, Instagram, and intuitive, musical movement. Current interests include planting gardens and meadows, inner lives of birds and animals, the grief of the anthropocene, South Asian costumes, domestic architecture, altars, atheism and magical thinking, pattern histories, friendship + love, her future lover, work spaces, work tables, eco-feminism, love poems, the gates to Indian homes, walking, seeds, and twice daily cooking.
She received her MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from the Virginia Commonwealth University, and is an Assistant Professor of Multiples + Distributed Art at Williams College. She is the author of Dead Planet Cookbook, and is currently working on a second book based on an imaginary Garden School.
Ash Ferlito
Working in a variety of media and form her work pulls from the natural world– images of the sun (the be all, end all), cyanotypes and paintings of moths and insects she light collects for observation, paintings emulating the spectrographs of birdsong she calls ‘harmonics,’ and ‘ wildscapes’ inspired by the spirit of plants. The projects, and life in general, are guided by the joy of noticing the world around her.
Ash received an MFA from the Tyler School of Art, a BA from Yale University and is a member of the 2012 class of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.