Fledgling Folly
My grandmother dedicated the last decades of her life to saving the lives of so many birds that she was known as The Bird Lady to all in my hometown, Las Cruces, New Mexico.
And yet, it wasn’t until my early 30s that it dawned on me that I probably love including birds in my art because of her.
Do you ever feel so close to something, so inside of something, that you can no longer recognize it anymore?
Her name was Geri.
Geraldine Elaine Tillett (née Moore)
She was so beautiful.
…the kind you see in the movies.
And she was just so so good.
We couldn’t help but be consumed by it.
Historical sources utilized:
Scherzo di Follia: Countess Virginia Oldoini Verasis di Castiglione by Pierre-Louis Pierson. Photograph. 1863
