Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article explores the capacity of art for representing the question of ecological grief now confronting us in the Anthropocene.My art work is an ongoing series of drawings and paintings of dead birds entitled "Adrift in History."In reflecting on the meaning of this artistic practice through environmental narrative and art as a complex site of productive experimentation, I place the experience of grief-regarding both human and animal mortality in our rapidly diminishing environment in the Anthropocene-on display and for interpretation within multiple modalities.This project brings together art, literature, poetry, psychology, philosophy, phenomenology, environmentalism, cultural ecology, anthropology, ornithology, and naturalism to frame the cycle of life, death and transformation.My goal is to juxtapose an ecocritical theoretical lens with the art work to create a discursive intermedial effect-one that asks, reflexively, what the value might be of contemplating, while creating, an interspecies, archetypal image of the soul and its potential emotional resonance in the traumatic contemporary moment of the Anthropocene condition.In "Who Is This One?"-a recent suite in the series "Adrift in History"-I dwell on the image of the North American robin-Turdus migratorius-a common backyard species, and one of the many birds now facing great risk.So, I depict the robin at rest, contingently, in a state of limbo between life, death and the after-life.Influenced by Jon Young's environmental narrative, What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World, and the ecocritical concept of strategic empathy, I represent what the robin might feel.I am interested in how such images-and their capacity to evoke sympathy in the system of affinities between the embodied human mind and the more-than-human world enfolding animals, nature, and the environment as interdependent forces-might contribute to efforts to move us through and beyond grief, toward active investment as answerable, and ethical agents of social change.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.018 | 0.082 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.015 | 0.010 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".