Monday, June 22, 2009

holy smokes, Kate MccGwire...




And there's more where that came from. What an insane amount of detail and time and precision. The pigeon feathers come from pigeon wranglers around the UK (hence the stamped markings on the wings). I can't even imagine encountering that curious, beautiful beast in that enormous museum cabinet. The piece is called "Vex".

And then she went and made this one,
called "Rile".

7 comments:

spudballoo said...

Oh this gave me a fright...I thought it was so freaky giant boa constrictor or something (am completely phobic about snakes and can't look at pictures of them!)

Gosh, it's beautiful!!

Christina said...

ah-mazing!!

la pianista said...

wow those are really beautiful!

Bonbon Oiseau said...

awwwww yeah! thanks for this...

paige said...

oooh, I love pigeons.
how inspiring.
artists make the world go round.

Sapphire said...

When I first saw the picture, I thought it was a snake :D :D
Thank Heavens, these are only bird feathers!

Maggie May said...

Those really scare me. They give me internal shivers.