2007.

Mixed media, 8.625 x 6 x 2.5 inches.

"Telegraphe" is similar in nature to the object, "The Impossible Thing" in that two birds of different degrees of abstraction are caged together.

Only this time, the more stylized bird looks lovingly at the more realistic illustration. 

The more realistic of the two birds is only focused on the missing jewel in branches above (which has fallen on the stacks below) and is totally unaware that it is about to be caught in a net.

At the same time, the fanciful bird is helpless to do anything but watch its beloved be taken away.

On the verso, a woman of means stares out awaiting the arrival of a telegraph, and is fearful that it will be a harbinger of bad news. 

Her stoicism in anticipation of the delivery of a painful message is a mirror image to the foreboding in the glittered bird's awareness of its mates danger, and its inability to communicate it.