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About Elijah

Baltimore City  

Elijah KM Davis a multi-disciplinary artist hailing from the dead steel city of Youngstown, Ohio. With an MFA from UMBC, they have worked intimately with the concepts of surveillance and with the notions of nostalgia, remembrance, memory, and longing. Two distinct interests, they often combine methodologies to craft works that hit at the core of human emotions. The goal being to create works that make the audience feel something, ranging from negative to positive and all points in between.… more

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bird feed (2021)

Birds have long been the eyes and ears for gods — forever watching, existing in a place we can only hope to reach, communicating what they see to an invisible being.

We have developed a version, avian adjacent, to inhabit that space, however fleetingly and impermanently, watching and relaying data, all controlled by human hands, but from a distance.

What do they see when we don’t know they’re watching? What do you not want them to see? What will happen when drones exist in our airspace, watching every move, documenting it for someone we might never see?

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