Based on the article "Pigeons" by David Gissen, this diptych illustrates the relationship between the Inclusion and Exclusion of pigeons in architecture. Although people nowadays often consider pigeons dirty and unpleasant, Medieval European aristocrats once cultivated pigeons as a status symbol. The left side of the diptych demonstrates the Inclusion of pigeons and the Exclusion of people within a pigeonnier coop supported at the expense of cruel peasant labour. The right side explores the opposite condition, where people use spikes to deter pigeons from human buildings. There are many ways to interpret Inclusion and Exclusion through various physical, social, and psychological levels. Both diptych halves display similar images in inverted colour schemes to show how one space can simultaneously create vastly different atmospheres depending on an inhabitant's point of view; ultimately, the two images represent the subjectivity of a being's experience in an interior.
