Stuttering Magpie (2006)

Stuttering Magpie Machine No. 1, an autonomous shadow puppet that is trying to beckon gallery visitors to its nest in the woods. It speaks a human language but does so through its own alphabet rendered in shadows. To most, it is perceived as nothing more than a gyrating assemblage of paper and wire, its pleading invisible and unheeded.

Stuttering Magpie Machine performs the
			   letter S.  Robotic artwork by artist Ian
			   Ingram.

Stuttering Magpie Machine's nest under a
			   bridge in the woods.  Artwork by artist Ian
			   Ingram.

Stuttering Magpie Machine's egg plucked
			   from its nest and set upon a nearby
			   stone. Artwork by artist Ian Ingram.

Stuttering Magpie Machine's egg cracked
			   open to reveal that the robot has left you
			   yet another message to decode. Artwork by
			   artist Ian Ingram.