The Vulture Mothers

Meredith Drum

2025

Artwork description

The Vulture Mothers (2023 – ongoing) is a mobile augmented reality experience part of a larger intermedia initiative offering a somatic space of vulture power, a push through death into regeneration and the numinous. Vultures – feared and venerated for their connection with death and decay – are essential to the health of our planet. The Vulture Mothers broadcasts their magnificence. 

About the artist

Meredith Drum is an interdisciplinary artist working with video, animation, installation, augmented reality, and various modes of public participation. She is influenced by cinema history, climate justice, swimming in the ocean, feminism, multispecies anthropology,  cultural studies, walking in the woods, science fiction, riding bikes with loved ones, contemporary visual culture, and her family, friends, and cats.