Bird Speak
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Purple Finch (mural detail)
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Baby Barn Swallow (mural detail)
Birds have always held a fascination for humankind. They have such
capacity to move us. The images above are from works that for one
reason or another moved the owners to tears.
But why do birds move us so? Such small creatures with almost no weight
can work tirelessly to build sometimes quite elaborate nests. They flit
about with lightning speed and chatter to one another in complex
languages. Their routines are fixed and predictable. Birds are so
numerous that within a species one might seem just like another to
us...just one more among so many. Is it the paradox of their frailty
and strength that moves us? Their world so often mimics ours. And if we
ever can get one to let us feed it by hand, we feel honored. Why is
this?....that something so frail and tiny would trust us?....that we
feel the faint warmth from a little feathered body and it comforts us?
Does this sense of connection somehow inspire strength to persevere
when a personal crisis looms? I don't entirely know. I do know this;
when a collector* buys my bird painting and tells me that the reason
she wanted it was that it made her cry, I feel fulfilled. Not because I
need the cash, though that's true. And not so I can brag that I sold
another painting, though I did. I feel fulfilled because someone else
felt the same thing I did when I painted it.
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"Aspiring Chickadee" SOLD
* Artist/collector Beth Brown is an exhibiting member of the Artist's
Society Of Dearborn. Her own painting won the "Judge's Choice" award in
ASD's Fall Show, 2018.
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