Whilst studying crows in order to identify their defining characteristics, it becomes very clear that learning to draw/sculpt is about learning to see. So in order to reproduce an authentic crow in metal, I have had to remind myself to look closer and look again.
We all have an idea of what crow looks like, but this is simply a symbolic imagining. In reality these birds very rarely bear any resemblence to the symbolism created by our minds. This is almost certainly true of everything tangible in the world, but made especially acute by the very dynamic nature of birds and their occupation of 3-dimensional space.
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