original acrylic on wrapped canvas - 36" x 36" x 2.5"  "I have always had a fascination with birds and use them frequently in my paintings; from the real to the imagined.   They lead much separate lives than ours yest exist in the same space, in a whole other dimension with a separate reality. They seem to bring hope of something more than we can know and seem to understand things we do not."  Artist Russell D'Alessio