Skybreaker Paper Art Original
By combining prehistoric North American species with contemporary local flora, the goal of the North American Megafauna Project by Beastie and Bone is to help inhabitants of the United States view their backyards, local parks, and nearby conservation areas with new appreciation. It’s been ages now since Aiolornis incredibilis lived, but intriguingly, it’s likely one of it fellow species from the southwestern area of the United States is still around.
In Skybreaker, the massively-beaked skull of Aiolornis incredibilis is twined with a lightning-like branch of bristlecone pine, a tree that has adapted to survive extraordinarily long periods of time. Though it’s twisty branches, worn smooth by the elements as the walls of wind-swept canyons, may seem dead, with how few needles they normally carry. But life thrives in these trunks for thousands of years. There are bristlecone pines still alive today that have been dated to close to five thousand years old. So, once a long time ago, A. incredibilis may have peered through its branches from above, searching for carrion just like it’s modern day ancestor, the California Condor, does now.
Sadly, the California condor is now an endangered species, its numbers depleting due to habitat loss, lead poisoning from ingesting remains of hunted animals, and DDT contamination. Currently the largest land bird in North America (and thus comparatively megafauna in its own right these days) the California condor may not hold that title much longer if its populations are not allowed to rebound. Thankfully, the governments of both the United States and Mexico, as well as a number of US zoos and the Yurok Tribe of California, came together to form the California Condor Recovery Program. The Program is currently working to create independent wild populations, with release locations in Arizona, California, and Baja, Mexico.
Skybreaker is constructed of 100% recycled cotton watercolor paper and cardstock, and detailed with India ink and watercolor. It is framed within a pine wood 18"x24" shadowbox with archival matting and UV-blocking, anti-shatter Conservation Clear acrylic glazing.
Comes with certificate of authenticity and wire on back for easy hanging.
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