Every morning, Nicolas Turon pays tribute to his department with a funny, tender and knowing text, in the form of a declaration of love for the Moselle. He chooses an emblem belonging to history or current events and treats it in an offbeat way.
Murmuration is the magnificent name given to the flocks of birds which, in spring, paint our sky with cabalistic messages. Thus, the murmuration of starlings preparing to clean your cherry tree is a living cloud, made up of hundreds of natural pixels, a flock of birds, which forms a kind of moving and metamorphic, rhizomal matrix. These clouds reinvent a language, draw the letters of an imaginary alphabet where the obsessive geese are content with the letter V.
If we were still in ancient times, we would see oracles in these new drawings. Sometimes we suspend a moment of sublime beauty: when randomness guides the human eye and the whisper sounds like a bird.
Why do birds fly in flocks?
Because this way they escape predators: in you moving into meleeyou avoid attracting the attention of your rivals. A raptor will have more difficulty targeting a particular specimen to make it his lunch within a group that moves in tight ranks. The complex choreographies performed by the swarm lead to the feeling of disorientation and confusion, like the furry one running in a zig zag across no man’s land to avoid serving as too easy a target. This type of movement is also practiced under the sea: a murmuration is a school of fish that flies…
