笔补颈苍迟别诲:听April 12, 2017
(This mural has been removed.)
About the Bird:听After its numbers were depleted by habitat destruction and unregulated hunting in early decades of the 20th century, legal protections helped the Sandhill Crane recover and expand its range. Various populations breed from the Arctic to the Midwest and even in Florida, but its summer range could contract by one-third at 3 degrees Celsius of warming. Limiting warming to 1.5 degrees would help it hang on to breeding habitat in the United States.
About the Artist:听听is a mixed-media painter and art writer based in the Bronx. She combines acrylics, oil painting, pyrography, and collage on wood panel in听layered imagery that both reveals and conceals itself through a combination of additive and subtractive听methodologies.听Recently,听she returned to landscape painting to reconnect with nature and create听environmental awareness. The 爆料公社 Mural Project fits in neatly with that aim. 鈥淚 chose the Sandhill Crane for its elegant beauty,听but also because I was intrigued听by its unique mating dance that combines choreography of flapping, bowing, and jumping that seems a joyful celebration of life,鈥 she says. 鈥淣oted conservationist, Aldo Leopold captures them beautifully in his essay听Marshland Elegy听(1948), 'On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds. A new day has begun on the crane marsh.'听Although听I鈥檝e never seen an actual Sandhill Crane, I could easily picture them in the phragmites marsh at Van Cortlandt Park where I spend many听peaceful moments watching the birdlife in my neighborhood. It is a pleasure to honor听this majestic bird.鈥
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