Heimir Björgúlfsson evaluates how animal species adapt to and interact with the ever-changing urban world. Growing up in Iceland, he aspired to be an ornithologist and constantly sketched birds; upon moving to the Netherlands for school, he was exposed to “a country significantly altered by human intervention.” This contrast shaped his artistic direction, and he continues to compose animal-based works. “Everything from Monkey burglary gangs stealing food from private homes in the suburbs of cities in South Africa, caused by habitat loss, to Manatees eating lawn grass in flooded backyards in Florida, caused by climate change. Through such examples of unpredictable consequences, what do we know and think about the so-called laws of nature and species adaptation?” he asks.
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