Minerva
Andrew Denman
9 x 12" Acrylic on Cradled Board
2015
Common Barn-Owl (Tyto alba)
Artist's comment: "I am fortunate to live in an area with a large population of these wonderful owls. In fact, with the coming of summer, I hear them nearly every night, chattering rhythmically to each other as they fly overhead or calling from lofty perches with their distinctively raspy, metallic shrieks. Last year, a pair nested in the shaggy trunk of a nearby palm tree, and one night I was fortunate enough to see the two adults and three branchers all perched in the same tree, a gathering of ghostly white apparitions in the glow of a round and fecund moon. The last few weeks, I’ve noticed the base of this same palm littered with owl pellets, gopher parts, and the white splash of bird droppings, and I wait with baited breath for Minerva to make her appearance."
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