Poetry: Emily Dickinson, On my Volcano grows the grass/
Music: Alexander Scriabin, Le Poeme de L’extase + John Adams, Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes
24k Gold, with 133 bird feathers [including Lady Amherst Pheasant, Ring-Necked Pheasant, Silver Pheasant, Golden Pheasant, Grey Peacock Pheasant, Ocellated Turkey, Wild Turkey, Guinea Hen, Magellan Goose, Peacock, White Peacock, Princess of Wales Grass Parakeet, Conure, Budgerigar, Jungle Fowl, Tragopan, Flamingo, Cockatiel, Hamburg, Scarlet Macaw, Blue & Gold Macaw, and other birds], water-gilded cherry wood [wood, chalk, rabbit skin glue, bole, and water], poetry, and music.
33 ½ x 16 x 20 inches
View to the left, three-quarters
Back view, three-quarters.
Back view
Right side view
Detail, front view.
Close view
Detail of working base, showing relationships of feathers to each other and the gold
Parchment: final tracing of the work before gilding and completion
Parchment, detail of one section, including Cardinal feathers 9, 10, 14 15, 19