RSF Photographers: Paula McCartney
Yellow Warbler by Paula McCartney from her series Bird Watching.
Special insomniac RSF photographers edition. For those of you who pay attention to my time stamps (you know who you are): Yes, it’s 2:57 AM.
My love of birds is well documented.
I met Paula McCartney while I was at Review Santa Fe and corresponded with her beforehand, but I unfortunately didn’t get a chance to sit and go through her portfolio with her. Paula was showing prints from her series Bird Watching. I love the concept, she was highly recommended to me by a few people who know my tastes pretty well and I like what I see online. Here’s a snippet from her statement:
In these images I’ve combined varied natural settings with carefully placed craft store songbirds to create an enhanced landscape. This work explores how nature and fabricated elements can combine to create a scene that questions what is natural, and whether being so holds any intrinsic importance.
Also worth checking out on her website: her series Accumulations and her divine handmade books.
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June 8th, 2007 at 9:57 am
Hey Jen, I’m so glad you put Paula’s work and link up here. I totally LOVED her projects and images and you’re right, the books are divine, or, well, at least divinely inspired. She also sells those suckers and has whittled down the edition on the various projects. Any rare book librarian’s out there reading this? You should contact her and acquire for your collections.
June 9th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
[...] have my bird fixation, but my animal kingdom affinities are by no means limited to our fine feathered friends. Of course [...]
June 15th, 2007 at 5:19 pm
[...] upstate jaunts and the perpetual schlepping art that makes my job oh so glamorous. I’ve been keyed up enough lately that I’m good to go on 5 or 6 hours of sleep - this allows me to indulge my [...]
July 11th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
[...] Although I no longer have the bird field guide as impeccably memorized as I did when I was a wee lass of 10 or so, my soft spot for bird visuals is still tender. So is Jen Bekman’s. [...]
June 14th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
What!? A $25,000 McKnight photography fellowship grant for gluing fake birds to trees and making snaps of them? Really?
http://www.mcknightphoto.org/
Wow. I’m stupidly speechless.