My sister Olga is a licensed wildlife rehabilitator. Her specialty is birds. I made this collage in her honor in 1991. As I recall it took a long time and I kept it on my work table adding birds to it every day for months. I wanted it to be "just so".
I used two postcards, published by Dover, of an antique wooden Lady Liberty type statue as the central figures. I kept one postcard intact and carefully cut the figure out of the other. (I thought the wooden lady to be a tree of a sort hence the nest on top of one head and a birdhouse on top of the other.) I then had a good time cutting up a bird field guide by Roger Tory Peterson. The end papers had lovely silhouettes of birds (the cut out lady is pasted to an intact end paper) and I found every variety of bird within the pages of the book. I framed this collage (using UV glass than goodness!) and actually took it out of the frame so I could scan it for The Kollage Kit -I also never had a record of it so it made sense to do it now.
I think this is one of my very best collages.
Spectacular collage! Must be viewed large.
ReplyDeleteReally stunning! I recognize the Peterson guide, because I'm a birder: the balance of silhouettes and colored paintings is nicely done. And I love how the turkey in the lower left anchors the composition.
ReplyDeleteMy sister lives on 20 acres and had a pet wild turkey named "Peeps". "Peeps" actually became a very mean bird as he aged, terrorizing my sister's dogs. He is now in wild turkey heaven.
DeleteSpectacular indeed. I like the bird hats.
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