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12-21-11 layered progress
Digitally layered version of the progress, now at a total height of 4.5 feet on the left side & 4 feet on the right side.
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12-21-11 head detail
Condor 27's remarkable head peers out at me through the warp, waiting to be woven. How different it...
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12-21-11 coverts detail
12-21-11 coverts detail
Although the coverts appear to be exactly the color of the off-whites & greys that they were woven...
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12-21-11 coverts detail
12-21-11 coverts detail
The coverts simultaneously appear darker, translucent, & opaque where they are layered both over...
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12-21-11 body feathers & tail detail
Now beginning to weave the body feathers, which much appear distinctly different from the stiff tail & wing feathers, but in a subtle way.
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12-21-11 tail & butte 4 detail
Here, I have begun to weave the deep shadow of butte 4. These colors must relate to those of the...
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12-21-11 wing, tail, body detail
12-21-11 wing detail
Condor 27's lower wing is now fully woven & will soon disappear around the lower beam of the loom as the weaving progresses.
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12-21-11 progress
Butte 2 is complete with its sun-gilded cliff, the lower wing is complete, half of the tail feathers...
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12-21-11 butte 2 detail
Macro view of color blending for butte 2's sunlit cliff top.
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12-21-11 body feathers detail
Intermittent passes of three different weft bundle blends are used to represent the silky body feathers.
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12-21-11 butte 2 detail
The tops of the buttes appear to glow as they ascend out of the gorge shadows. Here I have woven a...
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12-21-11 butte 2 cliff detail
The top of butte 2 becomes a vertical cliff & the horizontal striations of the sandstone layers...
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10-5-11 wing, tail, body detail
Here, Condor 27's lower wing is nearing completion & the first few feathers of her tail have been...
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10-5-11 secondaries detail
The secondary feathers of her lower wing are complete. Now, the darker coverts will give way to the...
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10-5-11 butte 2 cliff detail
The horizontal striations of the butte cliff are woven with random lines of darker value weft bundles...
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