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"Birdhouse V"Labels: Art Everyday by Mick Mather, ball point pen, coffee, digitally manipulated mixed media and drawing on paper, ink, stained paper, The Birdhouse Series
posted by Mick at 7:10 PM
In its short-sightedness, blogger has turned its back on those of us stuck with old operating systems and I'm forced to find a new blog host. You will now find MickMathersARTblog at Blog.com - use the direct link found in the masthead and remember to update your bookmarks. This place will continue as another archive for a large body of my work. As many of you know, my primary medium and working method is digital collage composed of manipulated photographs often combined with digital drawing & generative images. Netlabels, bands and musicians can view samples of my CD Cover Art at Mick Mather Illustration located on Tumblr. In another life I was an Arts & Culture consultant specializing in revitalization planning through creative public art projects and programs with Economic & Community Development Departments of towns, villages and cities. In these hard financial times this work is more important than ever and I still accept consultancy inquiries. You can contact me by email at: mickmather@yahoo.com
12 Comments:
A birdhouse in birch.
hpy:
Here we go again! I hadn't noticed that until you said so. Thanks, Hélène! :)
Broken glass.
susupetal:
This image Susu? Or your singing voice? :D
My voice is srystal clear, ha ha.
No, the surface of this image reminded me of broken glass, not a birch.
susupetal:
Right! :D
Yes, I can see the nest. Woody colors suits this pic. I almost saw the bird too, but maybe it was a ghost.
elegia:
It's been quite a ghostly spring for you, Elegia. :)
I've seen the light..or the birds I should say!
Finding the birds with the other houses (except the 3rd)is like suddenly realising there's money in the birthday card when you think there's just a card!
Blue and Green birds in the first 2 and Brown bird, perched bottom left off centre this time?
What inspired you to do the bird house series? I'm curious to know how your mind is ticking...hope you don't mind my curiosity.
lisa sarsfield:
The bird that I intended - although I also see the one you mention - is perched atop the house, upper right. The inspiration for the series was a long drive around and I speak about it here.
Go have a look and then visit the original photograph here. Please feel free to ask more questions as I'm quite enjoying our conversation.
I went and looked and now I remember that you said that this series was the result of being inspired by a bird house, I hadn't seen the bird house though. Thanks for the links. All of yours are so different from the original inspiration and from each other. I look forward to seeing what comes next...assuming there's more bird houses in the series. Its funny how we create bird houses for birds to make a home in but make little effort to actually replicate their natural habitat...they move in and build nests inside them. Just like we do in our houses. Maybe we really descend from birds not primates!! lol. Now there's a thought...
lisa sarsfield:
I have two more birdhouses in the works but neither of them seem to be working out yet. Anyway, there will surely be lots more to come. As regards descending from birds? I know a few people who qualify as reptilian, at least as far as their code of conduct is concerned (as in they don't have one!) ... :|
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