Silent Spring Revisited - Seven Eggs on the Red List print 56cm x 61cm (paper size)

56cm x 61cm (paper size)

Only 100 of these will be printed

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Silent Spring Revisited - Seven Eggs on the Red List print 56cm x 61cm (paper size)The print presents the eggs of seven birds on the 5th Birds of Conservation Concern Red List (2021). The eggs, loosely represented in this work at approximate size, are falling from a cold, empty nest. Small snippets of tattered music, representing birdsong, can also be seen tumbling downwards, rather than lyrically upwards as birdsong is more often shown. I have chosen to present eggs, rather than the birds themselves, because eggs, as the unborn