BIRDS
Defining beauty is just as challenging as explaining the mechanics of a beating heart. Beauty is simply a feeling of inner knowing when we encounter something that resonates with us.
It is as difficult to define beauty as it is to say how the heart beats.
The heart simply beats and when you see something beautiful you have that inner knowing that it just is. Nature, the original artist, gives us ample opportunities to admire and enjoy such beauty.
In all our discoveries, inventions, and creations, humans are still unable to match the effortless aesthetic intelligence found in nature's work, where we see an ostentatious display of visual magnificence in great abundance. Simple combinations of patterns, colours and textures that are vibrant and glamorous. The symmetry of motifs, weaved with the palettes selected, assembled in a unique fashion are too perfect to be random evolutionary co-incidences. The process and inspiration can simply not be explained.
This series of art portraits showcases a stunning array of birds in all their splendour, set against a backdrop of sumptuous fashion pieces that are carefully selected to perfectly complement their vibrant colors and graceful forms. The combination of these opulent elements highlight the innate elegance and vivacity of these exotic creatures.The result is a visual feast that celebrates the beauty and diversity of nature.
The inspiration to work on Birds came to Mudita when she stumbled upon a peacock feather and had a good close look at it. She says, ‘Marvelling its soft velvety texture I embraced the unique design, so beautifully conceived with its womb like dark indigo core, set inside an iridescent ring of a rich blended blue-green hue, surrounded by golden green strands, encased in a pear-shaped outline of a soft, beautiful shade of lime green. The looser, more delicate sprigs of the feather cascading around the central shape like water flowing around the sides of a shell on the sand. Beautiful! ‘
