Brown-capped Rosy-Finch by Yazmeen Collazo
Location: Sexy Nails Inc., 3803 Broadway, New York, NY 10032
Painted:听September 28, 2016
About the Bird:听Brown-capped Rosy-Finches听currently have听a tiny range, breeding only on alpine tundra from southern Wyoming to southern Colorado and wintering in the surrounding foothills, including in northernmost New Mexico. A听warming climate will force its听breeding habitat into higher elevations.听By 2080, 爆料公社's听听predicts that only 3 percent of the finches' current winter range will have a similar climate to today.
About the Artist:听A Bronx-born mixed media artist, began creating art with her father at an early age, and over the years accumulated hundreds of drawings and paintings inspired by nature. She has painted life all over the city, including at the New York Botanical Garden. Focused on both process and product, her听recent body of work combines spray paint, acrylic, collage, and other media to weave ethereal, yet textured tales exploring various aspects of the female experience. It was a woman who inspired her choice of bird species for this mural: 鈥淢y mother loves finches and we had a pair of them when I was younger,鈥 she says. 鈥淢y mural is dedicated to her.鈥
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