Feather dance Sculpture

Whooper swans migrate to Ireland to escape the Siberian winter. I was watching them on a lake in Connemara , West of Ireland and found some of their flight feathers on the shore, beautifull , functional objects . And I thought about "the flash upon the inward eye", as the poet said ,when you find something beautiful like that . Those first thoughts of flight , swans , grace and elegance ,power rush about the brain . So in this piece I try to put those type of avian thoughts back into the feather ! the bird is in the feather rather than the feather in the bird? The piece is in welded bronze and so is unique. The feathers are in 2mm sheet bronze with a rib made of tapered 10mm o bronze round bar. The swan cut outs are achieved with high pressure water as using heat to cut the shape out would distort the bronze sheet. The 3D swans are all in welded bronze . The patina is a blue green with a white overlay of titanium oxide. The plinth is a pale sandstone . The piece also reminds me of a poem by the irish poet laureate ,W B Yeats , The Wild Swans at Coole. the 2nd verse goes "The 19th autumn has come upon me Since i first made my count; I say before I had well finished all suddenly mount and scatter wheeling in great broken rings , upon their clamorous wings "

Sculpture:Bronze on Bronze

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:11 W x 46 H x 11 D in

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