Ostrich in purple VAM I chose shimmering green paper

I chose shimmering green paper

It is based on an American dress from the early 1880s

Korean hanji tissue

metallic thread and cotton floss on cotton paper

Ostrich in purple VAM I chose shimmering green paperThis ostrich is based on an illustration from Johann Daniel Meyers 1748 book Angenehmer Und Ntzlicher Zeit Vertreib Mit Betrachtung Curioser Vorstellungen Allerhand Kriechender, Fliegender Und Schwimmender, Auf Dem Land Und Im Wasser Sich Befindender Und Nhrender Thiere. In English, thats A pleasant and useful pastime, with the contemplation of curious ideas about all sorts of crawling, flying, and swimming animals, living and feeding on land and in