“As I traveled on, the air was literally filled with pigeons. The light of noon-day was obscured as by an eclipse, and the continued buzz of wings had a tendency to lull my senses.

Before sunset I reached Louisville, Kentucky. The pigeons passed in undiminished number, and continued to do so for three days in succession. The people were all in arms. The banks of the Ohio were crowded with men and boys, incessantly shooting at the pilgrims, which flew lower as they passed over the river. Multitudes were thus destroyed. For a week or more, the population fed on no flesh other that of pigeons, and talked of nothing but pigeons.”

A Catalog of Extinct Experience collaborator Chris Desser has recently designed and fabricated an “asana”, which means “seat” in Sanskrit.  Asana also translates as the position one sits in.  Chris was asked to contribute her asana to a yearlong outdoor exhibition called “Seat,” at Fort Mason in San Francisco.  It has been well received and is enjoying much use.