Bird Citing: On the Aesthetics and Techno-Poetics of Flight‪.‬

The first flash of a bird incites the desire to duplicate not by translating the glimpsed image into a drawing or a poem or a photograph but simply by continuing to see her five seconds, twenty-five seconds, forty-five seconds later--as long as the bird is there to be beheld. --Elaine Scarry, On Beauty and Being Just