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| "Birds
at War" is a painting in two parts that has been destroyed. The panels consisted of
eighteen vignettes divided into two camps of birdlike creatures, whose alliances were
defined by their direction of flight — left or right. Ghosts in rust red emerged from underneath the bird-soldiers. The inspiration for this piece was both persian miniature painting and the red chalk drawings of early renaissance painters. I wanted to evoke the feeling of an epic battle painting, but with an emphasis on the empty space between the soldiers, a sense of the ground upon which the painting was staged. I decided to cut all of the vignettes out of the painting, repaint them, and frame them individually. I still think of them in relation to each other, but now the idea of the spaces between them is much more fluid. They have become free agents. |