April 1, 2024
From the Spring 2024 factor of Residing Chook mag. Subscribe now.
Artist Jake Messing creates lush, collage-like works which are a contemporary tackle colourful, Baroque-era nonetheless lifes. He attracts inspiration from the life-and-death cycles of nature, and the attention-grabbing or strange behaviors he’s seen whilst exploring the outside, similar to shrikes impaling their prey and cardinals attacking automobile mirrors. For his watercolor Azure Guard, he used to be impressed by way of an statement of mobbing conduct all the way through a late-summer travel to the Catskill Mountains in Upstate New York. “We noticed a bunch of 3 Blue Jays land in a tree close to a perching red-tail, after which get started dive-bombing and making a host of noise,” says Messing. In contrast to the Pink-tailed Hawk in his portray, Messing says the hawk he noticed getting mobbed “didn’t appear find it irresistible cared an excessive amount of.”