Day 23

'Cuckoo' Pencil on Paper

This was the proposed drawing for yesterday but due to the fact it would have taken more time to do than I had available I postponed it until today.

Birds are something that I have used in my work before, having done some sculptural work in the past that involved creating cardboard sculptures of birds that were nesting in canvases for an art exhibit a while back... I'll try and post an image of them at some time soon as a reference point. The reason for the birds is probably due to the nature of the work I was making up to that point, most of the work I made was sculptural based and the works themselves were made from found and scavenged materials. The idea of making something functional from the things that other people throw away in many ways is mirrored in the way that birds build nests from materials that the find, in many cases creating these elaborately woven and amazing structure's. I have always liked the idea of being able to find use in the useless, or creating something from that which has seemed to have lost it's purpose and has now been discarded. Not only this but it's the notion of being able to give new purpose to those materials and creating something that is valued, admired and coveted that i find fascinating.