Besides being an inveterate art lover, Barbara De Coninck has been a passionate ornithophile all her life. Each Issue, she writes about her experience of birding from the perspective of art (and vice versa).
The Devil’s Advocate
Something strange is going on in the Jan Breydelstraat in Berchem. Day after day, rain or shine, at night but also during the day, a group of pigeons roosts, motionless, on the roof of a house — an uninhabited terraced house, to be precise, which a local law firm uses as a standing archive. It seems that the birds are nailed to the roof. Never do they appear hungry or thirsty; nor has any passer-by ever seen them take off for a foraging flight or a late winter courtship. What’s more, they cu (…)
