The Spoonbill Migration project is an annual tradition for the architecture department at Berkeley.
I created my spoonbill sculpture using bullet shells (that I had hammered down) for the feathers in its wings. (A nod to the spoonbill making its home in a DMZ.)
Many of my professors that I really respected told me it was the best one they’ve seen in all of the years that they’ve held this event. Someone in the CED office ended up buying it.
But what made this project particularly memorable was probably how I got those bullets. I went to a local gun shop and ended up talking to this white supremacist (legit swastika tattoos) about haute couture. It was pretty surreal. Haha