Artist Statement
As Birdwings explores the beauty and fragility of the natural world. It is my hope that this series inspires people to love what is beautiful in our world and take action to save it.
The title of this series was inspired by the following poem:
Your grief for what you’ve lost lifts a mirror
up to where you are bravely working.
Expecting the worst, you look, and instead,
here’s the joyful face you’ve been wanting to see.
Your hand opens and closes, and opens and closes.
If it were always a fist or always stretched open,
you would be paralyzed.
Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding,
the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated
as birdwings.
– Rumi