Cirrus@Austlit

'Writer and artist Stephanie Radok reflects on art and its purposes. Becoming a Bird: untold stories about art includes her travels to multiple museums in the northern hemisphere, wandering and wondering.
'She takes the reader from Venice to her terrazzo bathroom, finds her Adelaide garden underground in Rome, remembers how to wiggle her ears in Berlin, and sees St Francis in New York.
'In twelve meditative stories which reflect on memory, childhood, weeds, death, freedom and the soft fur of a dog, Stephanie Radok discovers that, mostly, we are all at home everywhere in this world.'

Source : publisher's blurb

'Artist and writer Stephanie Radok possesses a unique international perspective. For over twenty years she has written about and witnessed the emergence of contemporary Aboriginal art and the responses of Australian art to global diasporas.

'In An Opening: Twelve Love Stories about Art, Stephanie Radok takes us on a walk with her dog and finds that it is possible to re-imagine the suburb as the site of epiphanies and attachments.' (From the publisher's website.)