BIRD IN FLIGHT-Spring 2020

: Bird in Flight, side view

: Bird in Flight, Front View

: Bird in Flight, Breast Feathers

: Bird in Flight, looking up

: Bird in Flight, Tail Feathers

: Bird in Flight Detail

: Rump Feathers with Diagram

: Covert Tail Feathers, with Diagram

BIRD IN FLIGHT (HOUSE FINCH)

The House Finch (haemorhous mexicanus) is an invasive species of bird with a red head and throat. Scruffy, gregarious, talkative things, they live near homes and people. At Thorndike Field, they hang out in a large impenetrable thicket of wild rose along the edge of the woods and field. Finches are classified as Fringillidae, and are members of the passerine (Passeriforme), or songbird, order. This piece is in progress. Please see the end of this segment for animated diagrams of the finished sculpture.

Materials: aluminum tooling foil, crochet string, beeswax.

Sculpture IN PROCESS:

FEATHERS, details and process

Passerine songbirds have between 1,600 and 2,500 feathers. The total number of feathers made for this piece is about 1,650. Not all of them fit. They are divided into categories by type, and strung into place using a diagram.