Madonna of the

Birds


Graphite and gouache on stretched paper


150 cm x 120cm

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One of two narrative works juxtaposing the anthropocentric myth of the Madonna with the ongoing extinction of species on our planet. The dead birds heaped at the Madonna’s feet are all species recently brought to extinction by man’s wanton destruction of the natural world that supports him.

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