by Rachel Spurling

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Wire Owl

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The great horned owl is a beautiful and dangerous creature rarely seen but frequently heard. Growing up, there was an owl that lived outside my window and though I never saw it, I enjoyed falling asleep to the hoots it cried out into the darkness. This experience inspired me to create the illusive animal that stayed in the trees outside my window. My idea behind my Wire Owl sculpture was to embody the form and mass of the great horned owl through quality of line. I used wire because of its flexibility, which created the expressive lines I desired. Since the wire is such a lightweight material, I sculpted a subject with a similar weightlessness. The line quality creates motion, which further compels the idea of this carnivorous bird captured in flight, just before it seizes its next victim.

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