And You Thought a Murmuration Was Beautiful!!!!

I was thinking about the most challenging piece an artist can undertake.  The self portrait.

 A question arose in my mind, "Are humans the only species capable of self portraits?"

 Here we have Rembrandt, famous for doing the self, holding a dead bird.  WHAT ABOUT THE BIRD?   Does the bird have the mental capability to desire to preserve its own image?  And if it does, what medium would it choose?  Does it have a choice?  I think that there is only one choice for the bird, sadly.  We need only to look to the Dada Scatological  Avian Interpretive Movement to make the lowly bird's dream a reality.

You might not realize that the piece below is avian stool, applied loosely to auto window glass, then dried in the sun to a matt glaze.  Who knows what forces were at work combined with innate depository skill to create such a "chance?" happening, .

In this background we can see the image of an owl, turning its head, as if to say, "remember me, I exist."

Dada-Avian Scatological Interpretive

I am finishing up Art History II.  We just learned about Modern Art.  One of the movements in Modern art was Dada. (post World War I)  My Dada art is not a reaction to war- no, it is a reaction to the modern takeover of technology- into the human being's consciousness.  (For me this is the current horror of our time).  My visitation of Dada is in silliness found in the natural world!  Because of the focus we humans have on our technology we fail to appreciate the natural world around us!  We no longer see it with imagination!  The irony is......the photos were taken with an iphone!

Fish out of Water

Elephant 

Monkey on Stilts!

Black bear in snow storm with brown dog following!

Aliens!!!!!

This is all in fun!

Amelia's fish!