bEYOND THE REALM OF BIRD
Beyond the Realm of Bird: Part 1, #1–20
Gold, parakeet, peacock, pheasant, macaw, guinea hen, and other distinct bird feathers, water-gilded wood: the whole consisting of 20 individual bird-squares, Each approximately 2 x 1 ½ x 1 ½ inches. Overall size: 3 ½ x 12 ½ x 12 ½ inches.
Poetry: Emily Dickinson, A wind that rose/
Beyond the Realm of Bird, Part 1
Detail: Macaw, Cockatiel, Jungle Fowl
Beyond the Realm of Bird: Part 2, No. 21–40
Gold, parrot, peacock, pheasant, chicken, and other distinct bird feathers, water-gilded wood: the whole consisting of 20 individual bird squares, Each approximately 2 x 1 ½ x 1 ½ inches. Overall size: 3 ½ x 12 ½ x 12 ½ inches.
Beyond the Realm of Bird: Part 2
Detail
Beyond the Realm of Bird: Part 3, No. 41–60
Gold, macaw, moluccan cockatoo, cockatiel, grass parakeet, chukar, and other distinct bird feathers, water-gilded wood: the whole consisting of 20 individual bird squares, Each approximately 2 x 1 ½ x 1 ½ inches.
Total size: 3 ½ x 12 ½ x 12 ½ inches
Beyond the Realm of Bird: Part 3
Detail view
Beyond the Realm of Bird: Part 3
Detail, Chukar
Beyond the Realm of Bird: Part 4, No. 61–80
24 K. Gold, Water-Gilded Wood [cherry wood, rabbit skin glue, chalk, bole, and water], Bird Feathers [20 bird squares including feathers of Jungle Fowl, Goose, Golden Pheasant, Guinea Hen, Flamingo, Royal Palm Turkey, Partridge, Ocellated Turkey, Tragopan, Peacock, Silver Seabright, Blue & Yellow Macaw, Ring-Necked Pheasant, Hamburg, Argus Pheasant, Barred X Chicken, Cornish Bantam, Lady Amherst Pheasant, and Conure], and Poetry.
Overall size: 3 ½ x 12 ½ x 12 ½ inches
Beyond the Realm of Bird: Part 4
Detail Front, Golden Pheasant
Beyond the Realm of Bird: Part 4
Detail view
Beyond the Realm of Bird: Part 4
Detail, Flamingo
Beyond the Realm of Bird: Part 4
Detail, Goose
writings on work
Beyond the Realm of Bird are the words of Emily Dickinson, from a poem that begins, A wind that rose/ The specific feathers of this series are the very smallest of what I have, often little body feathers, bright surprises I put aside as I sift through the feather molt I receive from friends of my studio. Each set in the series consists of 20 gilded bird squares with distinct feathers from separate birds: the whole as an emblem of the bird, its own realm. Beyond the Realm of Bird is a constant series, with new bird squares becoming new sets of 20, as a continuous thread through the core of my work and life of my studio.