I Spy - More Winged Tales

Winged Tales was a series of books I created for an exhibition. 

And today I thought I would share my artist statement that goes with the exhibition. 

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It started with birds.

Each with their own story.

Birds of my daily wanderings.

Birds in books portrayed by early explorers.

Northern Birds…. Extinct Birds….. Tropical Birds….. Fictional Birds.

A variety of winged beauties, wanting their tales to continue.

And so I drew them.

These drawings collided with dictionary pages and tea bags,

Which in turn collided with my handmade books.

Books to tuck these birds inside - A way perhaps to keep them safe.

Safe from the wind turbines, airplane propellers,

skyscrapers, habitat loss, and even my windows in the woods.

Birds and their stories tucked away to keep them safe.

Oh how I wish it was so easy.

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This is one of the smaller books I made.

It is called 'I Spy'

And each page has a circle with a bird inside the circle. 

On every other page I punched a circle hole in the paper 

and inserted the bird so that it is a transparency - and can be viewed from either side.

It is just a little glimpse 

into their stories.