Feathered Reliquary

This piece was created especially for the Beautiful Bizarre curated show, "Heart's Blood," at the Haven Gallery in Northport, NY, in fall of 2017. The theme of the show was Oscar Wilde's poignant and lyrical tale, "The Nightingale and the Rose," a story I'd love since childhood, as it happened.

A centerpiece for the show was a short film version of the story, featuring the work of Australian artist Del Kathryn Barton. Inspiring and entrancing! Made me think on things I would love to do, though when and how I know not. I found the videos about the film and its creation fascinating. Here's one of them:

Del Kathryn Barton: The Nightingale and the Rose has its genesis in a commission by ArtAnd Foundation, who asked Del Kathryn Barton in 2010 to reimagine a timeless fairytale. A long-time aficionado of Wilde's works, Barton was struck by using The Nightingale as inspiration; one of his most poignant stories and related intrinsically to her own work with its vulnerable but emboldened feminine protagonist.

(So sorry to have been absent from my own site so much, my friends! I've been over on -- yes -- social media, and going through a measure of chaos in life, but I am back! I will catch up to my absent self here...)