Birds of Paradise Lost Painting

For me, collage has always served in both the process of starting a new artwork and of fixing something unfinished. In creating “Birds of Paradise Lost”, these two functions were at play. I started the piece at a gathering of the Nashville Collage Collective, working with a nature magazine photo of a bird in flight. The collage sat unfinished for months until I decided to tear it up to attach to a larger canvas. Rummaging through a stash of fabrics, I found a scrap from a coat and hat that I had custom-made for a musician friend some years ago. It held an alluring helical, batiked pattern that added to the story of the collaged wing and its mysterious painted environment. The bird’s disappearance into the background suggests extinction, the batik print alludes to rare DNA sequences and the brilliance of the painted papers to a flash of existence - something ephemeral being captured in mid-story

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:18 W x 14 H x 1.3 D in

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