The site primarily published high-resolution photography and video "mini-movies" of its models.
Some will see nothing — a random filename, forgotten and irrelevant. Others will see a hummingbird trapped in a jpeg, a lament for paradise, a signature made of smoke. Both are correct. Art that hides in plain sight, especially in the digital margins, demands a slower kind of looking. -ParadiseBirds- Casey Valery 03.
Casey Valery’s imagined color palette would borrow from bird-of-paradise cinematography (emerald, turquoise, velvet black) but would desaturate or “age” the tones — a melancholic paradise. Gold might appear only as a highlight on the bird’s eye or as a thin, broken border around the frame. a lament for paradise