Mounted Vine on Wood Base

• Mounted Vine On Wood Base, with feather House, or English, Sparrow (Passer domesticus).
• Milkweed Pod (Asclepias syriaca—Common milkweed). Both from the studio of Andy Moerlein. Objects fell from their mounts inside of a shipping container (corrugated cardboard), spring, 2003. 25 cm, Base: 18.5 cm. cir.

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I have enclosed two objects that have been recent inspirations. One is a perfectly twisted vine and a tiny sparrow feather. Both were on the floor of my studio together. I mounted them for you. The vine reminds me of the path the perfect feather made as it fell … like the fluff of feathers that dripped and loosed from Icarus’ wings as he soard with abandon. The second object is a milk weed pod that has lived outside my studio door. I tried not to mow it over, found two monarch cucoons, only one hatched. The seed pod blew into my studio one gusty day. I love the coarse outside, smooth inside. Like walnuts and lovers, once opened up the inside is very different from the outside. —Andy Moerlein

—Gift of the artist