Returning Swallows: Nathalie El Baba 2018

The theme for the Arts Festival in 2018 was ‘Borders’. My piece, Returning Swallows, was in response to this, and site specific to the red door of the barn. I have often incorporated large scale birds in my mural work, and have used the swallows as a symbolic representation of migration in this one. It is always joyful to see them return. They reflect not only their own migratory journey but also the journeys so many of us have chosen or been forced to make. How many of us will never return home? What role have borders played in our own lives?

Nathalie El Baba
Visual Artist and Facilitator
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