Canticle: Night of the Birds

Room: Information Commons, Main, 1st Floor (and ongoing wandering)

Enrique Enriquez will bring the birds inside the library, mimicking their calls with instruments that allow him to speak the language of birds. Moving freely through the building, he will address the birds that, asleep in the pages of books, populate the memory of their readers.

For twenty years, Enrique Enriquez has sat in the same café, sending a steady signal into the world until one day, the world began to answer back. Not through prophecy or revelation, but through the voice of a sparrow.

What started as an intuitive leap became a profound discovery: the birds responded not necessarily to specific sounds, but to rhythm, to presence itself. In this dialogue with otherness, Enrique found not answers, but a way to live. The birds taught him that meaning isn't found in interpretation, but in the moment when we forget ourselves enough to let the world speak through us.