boy bird monkey rose brings together a selection of five works, spanning thirteen years of Salmon’s practice: The Enemies of the Rose (2010), a luscious observation of interactions between garden flora and insect life, Gibraltar (2013), which follows the interactions of monkeys and human visitors, Bird (2016), a riff on the instructional nature documentary work of film pioneer Mary Field, Boy (winter) (2022), a series of encounters with contemporary boyhood, and Parolanto (2023), in which children illustrate phrases written in the constructed universal language of Esperanto.