Autopoiesis describes systems that maintain and reproduce themselves through their own components and processes, these pigeons have inadvertently „created“ their own representation through their natural bodily functions.

The pigeons‘ droppings – their waste product – become the very medium that depicts them. The gray-white palette of pigeon excrement forms the paint that renders their own images. This creates a self-referential loop where:

The pigeons exist in their cells. They produce droppings.
These droppings create the visual marks that represent them
The representation shows them in their cells, continuing this cycle.

This work is part of a series where the subjects literally create their own representation through their biological processes. The painting becomes both a document of their existence and a product of that existence, blurring the line between the creator and the created, the observer and the observed. This self-generating aspect mirrors how biological systems maintain themselves through their own processes. The pigeons are simultaneously the subject, the medium, and in a way, the artists of their own portraits.