As COVID-19 continues to impact my life and work, I am drawn to images of dead birds. Their still bodies convey a magical awareness of profound beauty. Soft and colorful feathers speak of sun rises seen from soaring heights and sunsets in the comfort of a self-built nest. Each day is a gift to be explored no matter how precarious the world might be. No matter how safe we try to make our environment, we will eventually die. I hope that my last day will be equally beautiful as the afternoon I spent at PLAYA, an art residency in the remote Oregon Outback where I came upon this Western Flicker.
In the meantime, I'm trying to overcome the learning curve thrown at me due to changes with Blogger's interface. By the time I figure it out, it will likely change again! Thanks for putting up with strange formatting of images and text!
what a wonderful piece. Irene in Northern Ireland
ReplyDeleteI really like your bird pieces and I think your stitching is very effective.
ReplyDeleteI've decided these software/format designers thought we all needed a new learning curve, since we are most stuck at home. wordpress has gone ape as well, and so has f/book. I've grasped most of f/book but wordpress thinks I understand symbols and then blocks. So my posts at w/press are still every which way.
ReplyDeleteI would prefer to be extending my mind with creative activities like working out to portray birds etc. Late last year I bought a bundles of paper/fabric workshops and I suddenly realised the other day, I had only truly made one of them - so I was looking at what I could add to my creative stance, and remembered the "workshops" of course my materials for it are lacking but I think I've found a substitute for a primary need which is to be started out today...