Don’t forget to look up

Sydney February 2013

This is a permanent public art installation, Forgotten Songs by Michael Thomas Hill which was completed in 2011. The empty cages and audio recordings of birdsong commemorate the songs of fifty birds once heard in central Sydney before they were gradually forced out of the city by European settlement. The calls, which filter down from the canopy of birdcages, change as day shifts to night; the daytime birds’ songs disappearing with the sun and those of the nocturnal birds which inhabited the area sounding into the evening.