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Monograph on the avian themed works of artist-biologist Brandon Ballengée. The book contains information on the artist’s bird related series "Frameworks of Absence", "A Season in Hell", " A Habit of Deciding Influence", "Apparitions" and others. Printed in the occasion of the Ballengée exhibitions Seasons in Hell (Museum Het Domein, Netherlands) and the joint exhibition From Scales to The Evanescent Presence of Sculpted Wings (Lafayette College Art Gallery, USA and Shrewsbury Museum, England). With texts from Roel Arkesteijn (Curator of Contemporary Art at Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands), Joanne H. Cooper (Senior Curator in the Bird Group, Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Tring, Hertfordshire, England), KuyDelair (poet, musician, and performer), Robert S. Mattison (Marshall R. Metzgar Professor of Art History at Lafayette College) and James A. Secord (Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project and Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge)