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Bronze sculpture made up of many small birds that form the shape of the larger flying bird with wings spread. Bronze sculpture shown on white background
Front view of profile of large flying bird made up of many small birds. Negative space shows in the body. Shown on a dresser top.
Diagonal view of a tabletop bronze sculpture on a dresser top. Square granite base hosts the square stick that supports the bronze birds in Murmuration.
The thin side view of the bird profile in flight bronze sculpture. Granite block of a base.
This shows the birds in flight in the shape of a bird, facing / flying to the left. This one-of-a-kind bronze sculpture rests on a dresser table top. Art by Kelly Borsheim
Detail of the smaller bronze birds that make up the large bird in flight shape. You may see the dark patina with the highlights after brushing / buffing the metal sculpture for added depth.
This flying bird sculpture rests on a bathroom countertoop and a part of it is reflected in the large mirror behind the sink.
Bronze bird art is perfect for a bathroom where humidity is unlikely to damage the art, as would happen to a drawing or painting.
The dark patina applied to the bronze has been lightly buffed off on all of the highlights to add depth to the entire bronze sculpture. Detail shot of the triangular bird shapes.
Small bronze birds overlap one another in two layers. Negative shapes add an airiness to the whole composition. See the texture created in the wax original duplicated in the bronze art.
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, Bronze sculpture made up of many small birds that form the shape of the larger flying bird with wings spread. Bronze sculpture shown on white background
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, Front view of profile of large flying bird made up of many small birds. Negative space shows in the body. Shown on a dresser top.
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, Diagonal view of a tabletop bronze sculpture on a dresser top. Square granite base hosts the square stick that supports the bronze birds in Murmuration.
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, The thin side view of the bird profile in flight bronze sculpture. Granite block of a base.
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, This shows the birds in flight in the shape of a bird, facing / flying to the left. This one-of-a-kind bronze sculpture rests on a dresser table top. Art by Kelly Borsheim
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, Detail of the smaller bronze birds that make up the large bird in flight shape. You may see the dark patina with the highlights after brushing / buffing the metal sculpture for added depth.
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, This flying bird sculpture rests on a bathroom countertoop and a part of it is reflected in the large mirror behind the sink.
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, Bronze bird art is perfect for a bathroom where humidity is unlikely to damage the art, as would happen to a drawing or painting.
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, The dark patina applied to the bronze has been lightly buffed off on all of the highlights to add depth to the entire bronze sculpture. Detail shot of the triangular bird shapes.
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, Small bronze birds overlap one another in two layers. Negative shapes add an airiness to the whole composition. See the texture created in the wax original duplicated in the bronze art.

zSOLD ~ Murmuration Birds in Flight Bronze Sculpture

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  • Bronze Tabletop Sculpture with black marble base
  • 17.5 h x 10.5 w x 3 d inches (bronze bird only)
    20 h x 10.5 x  4 in    incl. base from foundry
  • One-of-a-Kind artwork
  • $1500  ~ SOLD
  • Corporate Collection, Spain

Murmuration ~ Birds in Flight

© Kelly Borsheim


The inspiration:

     Birds are fascinating with so many different behaviours among their populations.  Murmuration was a new word for me.  It describes how starling birds (usually) make these lyrical flights as a group, morphing the overall shape of the group as they fly this way and that in a musical, fluid type of motion. 

 

     Seeing these masses of dark birds moving in flight in this way brings so many questions to mind.  A few are:  How do they know?  Do they practice as I did in the marching band for the half-time performance of a football game?  Which one is the leader?  What is the reason they fly around in this way?  Is this a form of communication?  If so, with whom? 

     I created this sculpture in wax, shaping each individual small bird in wax.  I used a hot metal tool to melt the wax after I shaped each triangle, giving a wonderful fluid texture to the surface of the small birds. 

     At the beginning, I knew that I wanted to play with the idea of the smaller shapes creating the larger one, work with triangles, and that the negative spaces between the birds would remain as open air.  I envisioned that once I got the two layers of birds cast into metal, I could then (hopefully) bend the flat bird into a shape that was more three-dimensional. 

     I had even started to design the corresponding base to it, but that has not yet been realized.

the small wax birds rested into the shape of a large bird and stayed in storage for years

     Unsure of physically how to join the individual birds without destroying the composition, I set this work aside for other endeavors.

unsure of physically how to join the individual birds without destroying the composition, I set this work aside for other endeavors.

     Finally in 2019, I decided that enough was enough.  I would not be able to preserve this work in wax and it was best for me to bring it to a bronze foundry and hope that they had technicians with the skill and patience to weld the wax pieces together long enough to get the piece changed into bronze.

 

     Thus, no mold was make of this artwork.  I suppose that I could make one from the bronze, but have not done so.  The foundry not only cast the piece (and did a beautiful job of it!), but they added the black square rod and granite base.  I may or may not change that in the future, but for now, the idea of so many years ago has been realized.  I feel grateful for this! 


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