[AGL] Birds/lunch or art

[Michael Eisenstadt]

Bill Erwin's ex-wife lives in Austin doing art involving bird cages.

our friend Kelly Bradford a young attractive artist kept a camera
in her car. when she saw a squashed squirrel or bird she stopped and
took a picture of it. when it had been a boid, she apparently
dumpster dived so to speak. i know this because she tried to
send a parcel to us by USPS. they refused it because
2 feathers/stuff had been glued to the wrapping paper
framing the address label. so she had to hand deliver the package
to us. she lived on W 9th on the other side of Lamar from here
(7th & San Antonio) so it wasnt no big deal for her. it was fairly
disgusting up close. i am not surprised that the post office refused
it what with these being some the days in the fight againt Trrr.

knowing of my Flight Simulator thing, she had been mailing
me 3 ring binders of shiny individual plane brochures which
she bought somewhere. in the last package (there were 3
packages, the first two duely delivered by the USPS), with the
glued-on feathers, there was another 3 ring binder plus the
keeper: a painted blue pot metal model of a double you
double you too fighter plane in good condition.

squashed birds on the road and Flight Simulator on the
computer came together in Kelly Bradford's art. i have
kept the pot metal fighter plane model in the ash tray. but
not the feathers on the wrapping paper nor the 3 ring
binders.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fontaine Maverick" <fmaverick at austin.rr.com>
To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s" 
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Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 7:28 AM
Subject: Re: [AGL] Birds/lunch or art



>I knew a woman who did art with the clean bones of small animals. She lived

> somewhere near that big bat cave(near Llanno, I think). She'd take the 

> road

> kill to the cave, leave it there for a few weeks to let the beetles clean

> them for her. Or so she said.

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> From: "Kathy" <kdoyle1 at austin.rr.com>

> To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s"

> <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 11:03 PM

> Subject: Re: [AGL] Birds/lunch or art

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>> Mmm! ligustrum berry stuffed wax wings with mistletoe garnish !  A

>> seasonal delicacy.   No, not really. It's because I am friends with

>> Sharon Warren who does art of flower petals, insect wings and bird

>> feathers of "found" dead critters  and  I'm  saving them for  her.

>> But neither of us is willing to pluck them, so first we need to find

>> someone not too squeamish with time on their hands to pull the

>> feathers. It sure ain't gonna be  me.  Whenever we find a butterfly

>> or other pretty winged critter or bright feather on the ground ( or

>> in a car grill) we save them for her.

>> Here's a blurry image of one of her small simpler pieces which she

>> gave to my son when we visited her studio. It's a little flower fairy

>> with a feathered skirt. dancing on a blossom from her garden.

>> kathy

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>> On Mar 8, 2007, at 5:45 PM, Bill Irwin wrote:

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>>> Nice snap of the birds.  But I gota ask why you are keeping some

>>> dead ones

>>> in the freezer?  Got a good recipe for them?

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>>> ----- Original Message -----

>>> From: "Kathy" <kdoyle1 at austin.rr.com>

>>> To: "survivors' the 60s reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in"

>>> <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

>>> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 10:11 AM

>>> Subject: [AGL] Birds

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>>>>   A tree full of cedar wax wings.  They like, among other things,

>>>> ligustrum berries, which we have.   This was their 3rd visit to  our

>>>> yard, when the pickins were thin.  After the first visit we found 2

>>>> dead ones ( dead drunk) that are presently in my freezer. They are

>>>> beautiful with soft downy yellow bellies, bright yellow tips on their

>>>> tails and bright red tips on the wings ( males only I think)  I took

>>>> 6 pictures of the tree full of birds and in everyone the birds were

>>>> each facing in almost the same way so you cannot see the wing tips on

>>>> one of them.  What were they all watching- the big cinema in the

>>>> sky?   They don"t really twitter - make a high pitched sound instead-

>>>> it is easier to notice their arrival by the plop- plopping sounds

>>>> that accompany them.

>>>> kathy

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