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"Songbird Niche" 11" x 16" acrylic 1991
I spend a lot of time watching birds. It is quite distressing at times (see Bluebirds and Bosnia on "Experimental " path) but also very rewarding. I was jogging in Hibernia park, near our home this Spring (1996) when I came across a small FLOCK of Scarlet Tanagers! I had seen this bird in books since childhood, but it was like the Loch Ness Monster or something to me- you read about it, but could never actually see it! But here they were, a small group of males and females, filtering through the trees. They make cardinals look grey! The red is amazingly intense, especially among the greens of the forest. It was the finest red I have ever seen.
This particular painting speaks in a fairly overt way of my concern
for birds and their habitat. I wish there was some easy answer,
or even AN answer to the problem of habitat destruction, but I don't
see it.
The best book I've read, along these lines is
E. O.
Wilson's The Diversity of Life.
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