Premonition Anatomy Muscles Portland art museum Contemporary Ceramics Bird Sculpture by artist Dirk Staschke

Premonition

Ceramic, Taxidermy bird, 10”x28”x6”, 2008
Collection of The Portland Art Museum

This was the last figurative piece that I made and I feel that it was one of my best. There is an inexplicable melancholy that I think comes from contemplating ones place in nature.