To the Birds

I have bird-related pieces appearing in two different shows for the next couple months.  There always seems to be room for a bird or two...

Patric Stillman and The Studio Door in San Diego, CA, have put together an intriguing exhibit called "The Crow Show," which includes a variety of pieces in different media featuring crows.  My pieces include an artist's book I titled 16 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, and a collage piece called Clarice, Raised by Crows, Was Ashamed of Her Human Face. You can see other pieces from this exhibit here.

In mid-March, an exhibit called "Arte de Avian" will open at the Tubac Center of the Arts in Tubac, AZ.  The exhibit celebrates "the beauty and spirit of birds and bird-watching," and will include two of my bird-ladies:

 Catharina Baart Biddle and Eight Canaries

Diva

16 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

  “16 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” is a one-of-a-kind, accordion-style collaged and hand-cut book I completed in 2012, with a title inspired by a well-known Wallace Stevens poem.  The book is 9.5" x 7.5," and includes 16 bird-themed collaged images, each with an accompanying haiku.  When the book is extended, the reader sees silhouettes of blackbirds, reeds, trees and branches scrolling for about 50" across the page tops.  Here are a few images of the book and several of the bird collages with their related haiku poems .

This is not my room,

not my glittering window

nor festering world.

Sir, you are wearing

a crow on your head.  Madame,

he is wearing me.

This bird is wildness.

Seemingly tame, it whispers

false serenity.