Flying Somewhere. Peacock wing feathers mostly.
I was so happy with the piece titled Migrate (see Blog for May 27th) that I wanted to explore making others based on this theme using lots of different interesting feathers. So one day Joy and I began searching for feathers to do this. At the end of the day we were surprised that we had only gotten as far as selecting feathers from one kind of bird--the peacock. These are the various different feathers from the peacock that we readied to carve. Notice that the bright display feathers are mostly absent. These are the less celebrated feathers from the wing plus the longest, a single stiff grey one on the bottom. This is the bird's true tail feather which they use to push up the display feathers on the bird's back.