Photograph by Johan Swanepoel/Fotolia via Princeton University Press.
Be sure to visit The Secrets of Winged Architects, a look at some of the most incredible nests in the bird world, in a slide show at Slate.com by Heather Murphy http://www.slate.com/id/2301690/. Murphy writes about Avian Architecture: How Birds Design, Engineer and Build, by Peter Goodfellow. a retired English teacher who has been studying birds since the 1970s. browngrotta arts’ fall exhibition, Stimulus: art and its inception, will feature Éclosion, a work by French artist Simone Pheulpin, that was inspired by a bird’s nest.
38sp ÉCLOSION
Simone Pheulpin
cotton
4.5″ x 7″ x 7.25″, 2011