"To be recognized and accepted by a peregrine you must wear the same clothes, travel by the same way, perform actions in the same order. Like all birds, it fears the unpredictable. Enter and leave the same fields at the same time each day, soothe the hawk from its wildness by a ritual of behavior as invariable as its own. Hood the glare of the eyes, hide the white tremor of the hands, shade the stark reflecting face, assume the stillness of a tree. A peregrine fears nothing he can see clearly and far off. Approach him across open ground with a steady unfaltering movement. Let your shape grow in size but do not alter its outline. Never hide yourself unless concealment is complete. Be alone. Shun the furtive oddity of man, cringe from the hostile eyes of farms. Learn to fear. To share fear is the greatest bond of all. The hunter must become the thing he hunts. What is, is now, and must have the quivering intensity of an arrow thudding into a tree. Yesterday is dim and monochrome. A week ago you were not born. Persist, endure, follow, watch."
- J.A. Baker 'The Peregrine'
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| 'Of a Feather' 2015 |
"A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. " - Chinese proverb
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| You may wonder why there is a hole in the collage? Well I wanted to cover up this white plastic mini-split, so... |
"I
never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen
dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself." - D. H. Lawrence
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| I created a collage to fit and put holes where the digital parts needed to be seen. |
"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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| Much better! |
"There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." - Douglas Adams 'Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy'
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