[AGL] Birds/lunch or art

[Michael Eisenstadt]

Michele,

it was a blurred picture of an art piece made out of dead bird
feathers.

doing art which is hard wired into humans interfaces with society
which invented taste to fend off everyone's art work.

i recommend sticking to pigment in a medium painted on a substrate
of stretched canvas paper or a wood panel. KISS recommends
stretched canvas because it is so light. invented in the Renaissance.

http://www.austincc.edu/umlauf/mason.htm

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "michele mason" <yaya.m at earthlink.net>
To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s" 
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Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 7:07 AM
Subject: Re: [AGL] Birds/lunch or art



> There was no photo on my email. Why not?  mm

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> On Mar 9, 2007, at 7:28 AM, Fontaine Maverick wrote:

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>> I knew a woman who did art with the clean bones of small animals. She

>> lived somewhere near that big bat cave(near Llanno, I think). She'd

>> take the road kill to the cave, leave it there for a few weeks to let

>> the beetles clean them for her. Or so she said.

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>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathy" <kdoyle1 at austin.rr.com>

>> To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s"

>> <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

>> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 11:03 PM

>> Subject: Re: [AGL] Birds/lunch or art

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>>> Mmm! ligustrum berry stuffed wax wings with mistletoe garnish !  A

>>> seasonal delicacy.   No, not really. It's because I am friends with

>>> Sharon Warren who does art of flower petals, insect wings and bird

>>> feathers of "found" dead critters  and  I'm  saving them for  her.

>>> But neither of us is willing to pluck them, so first we need to find

>>> someone not too squeamish with time on their hands to pull the

>>> feathers. It sure ain't gonna be  me.  Whenever we find a butterfly

>>> or other pretty winged critter or bright feather on the ground ( or

>>> in a car grill) we save them for her.

>>> Here's a blurry image of one of her small simpler pieces which she

>>> gave to my son when we visited her studio. It's a little flower fairy

>>> with a feathered skirt. dancing on a blossom from her garden.

>>> kathy

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>>> On Mar 8, 2007, at 5:45 PM, Bill Irwin wrote:

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>>>> Nice snap of the birds.  But I gota ask why you are keeping some

>>>> dead ones

>>>> in the freezer?  Got a good recipe for them?

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>>>> ----- Original Message -----

>>>> From: "Kathy" <kdoyle1 at austin.rr.com>

>>>> To: "survivors' the 60s reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in"

>>>> <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

>>>> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 10:11 AM

>>>> Subject: [AGL] Birds

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>>>>>   A tree full of cedar wax wings.  They like, among other things,

>>>>> ligustrum berries, which we have.   This was their 3rd visit to  our

>>>>> yard, when the pickins were thin.  After the first visit we found 2

>>>>> dead ones ( dead drunk) that are presently in my freezer. They are

>>>>> beautiful with soft downy yellow bellies, bright yellow tips on

>>>>> their

>>>>> tails and bright red tips on the wings ( males only I think)  I took

>>>>> 6 pictures of the tree full of birds and in everyone the birds were

>>>>> each facing in almost the same way so you cannot see the wing tips

>>>>> on

>>>>> one of them.  What were they all watching- the big cinema in the

>>>>> sky?   They don"t really twitter - make a high pitched sound

>>>>> instead-

>>>>> it is easier to notice their arrival by the plop- plopping sounds

>>>>> that accompany them.

>>>>> kathy

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