Oiseau

Birds and Bones-

This project was my specialised Embroidery project from first year at LCF- i was interested in the idea of mortality, and the beauty of a beginning and an end. I collected research and ephemera and drew from photographs of severed and dismantled bird's wings in the Natural History Museum and the Enlightenment room in the British Museum. The work was more delicate than dark, as i was looking to convey some of the brokenness and the sadness of the dead bird sketches in much the same way as the taxidermist Polly Morgan treats her subjects so delicately that the morbidity of the subject is no longer the focus of the piece.

These images are from the A3 presentation sketchbook collated from my research and development period.