A Little Bird Told Me in Everyday Eden (installation view) 2008

Tony Feher's installation, "A Little Bird Told Me in Everyday Eden", invites us into a conversation with the ordinary. These aren't your typical, high-falutin' materials; they’re humble things—plastic bottles transformed into something else. Imagine Feher in this Eden, among the trees with their yellow leaves, gathering these bottles, seeing potential where others see waste. There's a kind of alchemy at play here, turning the mundane into something that flutters between art and the everyday. The red and white of the bottles become these strange, beautiful blooms, clinging to the trees like fruit. It makes you wonder what Feher was thinking, what he was trying to tell us about beauty, about value, about the stories we can weave from the simplest of things. It’s a generous act, a way of pointing out the magic that's always been there, hiding in plain sight. It all reminds us that we’re all just picking up where someone else left off, turning things around, trying to say something new with the same old stuff.