The Bird, Nest, Nature show was supposed to open in July at the Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek, CA. I've loved the exhibitions at this excellent gallery for years. When I returned to art a few years ago, it was my first goal to show here. It seemed so pie-in-the-sky then, but just two years later, I find that I need to create new goals :)
The call for entry for this show actually inspired an entire body of work, the first piece of which, Circling 1, was accepted into the exhibition (top right piece in the image below). Thinking about birds always makes me think about flight and flight patterns. I’ve wondered about the unseen purpose of animal behavior (beyond just survival) since watching birds fly in circles above the Ka’aba in Mecca, mirroring the worshippers on the ground below. The concentric pattern became a drypoint plate and was the jumping off point for a series of pieces about circumnavigation.
The underlying drypoint print that began most of the series
About halfway through the series…
It's been bittersweet waiting for it to be safe for the Bedford Gallery to be open to see the show in person, but they've made the show virtual, linked below. And, finally, as of next week, the gallery will finally be open to visitors again, with advance reservations, available at https://www.bedfordgallery.org/
