#bird window

every time I see one of your posts I remember we have this one hanging in our house. your art is appreciated.

Bird Window February 2023, acrylic on panels, window frame, 34.5″ x 56″ 

A piece depicting North America’s disappearing avifauna. Details depict:

Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, Passenger Pigeon, California Condor

Carolina Parakeet

Azure-Mantled Warbler, Eskimo Curlew, Piping Plover, Golden-Cheeked Warbler, Whooping Crane, Heath Hen

The Azure-Mantled Warbler is a hypothetical species representing those which disappeared prior to recorded history, but which were seen by ancient people and named in languages that are also extinct. 

As a child, I recall coming home with my family

finding a dead bird lying on the ground below a

large window.

Its neck was broken, my Dad advised , hurrying

to remove it from our sight, but somehow handing

me a handkerchief. Why would a bird break its neck

flying? I pondered until Dad came into the house.

Learning that it had flown into the large window,

I expected that the glass would be removed…