Original artwork description:

Elegant and strange, the Escher Bird is a sculpture of a bird with a long beak patiently carved in a piece of small branch of light oak found in the forest on the ground. It belongs to the family of Ostreides, these beings from elsewhere with unusual shapes although close to terrestrial creatures, which have found refuge and survival in abandoned earthly materials...

As in Escher's magical world, his beak corresponds to an impossible structure. Maurits Cornelis Escher was an artist known for his woodcuts, black manners and lithographs often inspired by mathematics and Islamic art motifs, with an intelligence of perspective allowing him to create shapes in space and impossible worlds...

The body of the bird is a dry and hard natural coconut spathe, completed at the back with surfine wood pulp worked in modeling, dried then painted and varnished.

In order not to suffer from constraints during transport and to be able to be put in the position that one wants, the bird is simply slipped on its black iron base, which symbolizes its legs.

Materials: oak branch wood, natural dry coconut spathe, wood cellulose paste, acrylic paint, water-soluble oil paint, protective marine varnish.

Dimensions with base: H 41 x W 24 cm x D 20 cm

Materials used:

forest wood

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