In the video, birds construct a sculpture of St. Sebastian as if they were the sculptors. The arrows piercing the saint serve as scaffolding on which they can climb higher. The sculpture grows under their beaks: a tribute to a man who was never able to live his faith in freedom.

By playing the film in reverse, the birds take on a role they never had in reality. They seem to be creating rather than consuming. In fact, they were eating fat balls hung in the artist’s garden. The work plays with perception: the viewer can trick themselves into believing, if only for a moment, that they are as free as a bird.

The completed sculpture remained upright for about seven weeks, until it suddenly collapsed. The wooden framework that attached the sculpture to its pedestal had broken.

In the video on the left, the mold is removed in accelerated time and the arrows are attached. In the video on the right, the birds appear and the gradual deformation unfolds until the sculpture finally toppled. Even on the ground, the birds kept feeding until it had almost completely disappeared.