About the Artwork

The Washington Trashbirds are a fanciful and unique collective of DC pigeons who revel in the joys, diversity, and excitement of city life. They add quiet comfort, continuity, and familiarity to the city and serve as resilient guides when we feel overwhelmed or lost. Often invisible, they see value in the city's both venerated buildings, but also in the most unappreciated corners of the metro's brutalist vaults. The Trashbirds, alongside other special characters, remind city dwellers of the whimsical, sometimes mystical joys of the mundane. Trashbirds tend to notice the little things and don't take for granted small miracles, like an accidentally dumped carton of chicken nuggets, the mystery of where the metro drives after its last stop, or the way a sunbeam reflects off a metro escalator as it emerges into the light.