This work grows out of my long-term photographic archive of a buffy fish owl living inside a concrete drainage system at Gillman Barracks. After the last time I saw the owl, I kept returning to the site. Across these subsequent visits, I found its feather, a dried skeletal leaf, and a fragment of a World War II glass shard along the same stretch of the drain.

These objects became markers of a relationship formed through repeated encounters and waiting. They connect my presence to the owl’s absence, and to the layered history of the place—where wartime remnants, urban infrastructure, and non-human life continue to share the same ground. The work holds these fragments together as evidence of a coexistence that unfolds quietly, over time.

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