by Solly

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Monet's Magpie -- mosaic

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22H x 24W x 1D inches This work is meant to be an allegory about the response of mobile animals (and their passengers) to higher -- and rising temperatures. Monet’s magpie searches for a new niche but has reached the end of its favored habitat. It is perched on a fencepost situated in an oak savannah at an elevation of over one thousand feet higher than magpies currently range. Monet's Magpie commemorates Claude, of course, and this particular field for its environmental and historical significance. This oak savannah ravine is part of the privately-owned Summit Ranch, across the road from the boundary of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, headwaters for Tyler Creek -- and 3/4 mile uphill from my cabin. Uphill of this field lie remnants of an outpost used by Pony Express curriers, who followed the Applegate Trail over the densely forested Cascade mountains down into the Rogue Valley and Ashland.

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