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"Labrador Duck" by Todd McGrain - View # 1
Labrador Duck – View # 1 – With George Eastman in Background
"Labrador Duck" by Todd McGrain - View # 2
Labrador Duck – View # 2
"Labrador Duck" by Todd McGrain - View # 3
Labrador Duck – View # 3

"Great Auk" by Todd McGrain - View # 1
Great Auk – View # 1
"Great Auk" by Todd McGrain - View # 2
Great Auk – View # 2
"Great Auk" by Todd McGrain - View # 3
Great Auk – View # 3

"Carolina Parakeet" by Todd McGrain - View # 1
Carolina Parakeet View # 1
"Carolina Parakeet" by Todd McGrain - View # 2
Carolina Parakeet View # 2
"Carolina Parakeet" by Todd McGrain - View # 3
Carolina Parakeet View # 3

"Heath Hen" by Todd McGrain View # 1
Heath Hen – View # 1
"Heath Hen" by Todd McGrain - View # 2
Heath Hen – View # 2
"Heath Hen" by Todd McGrain -View # 3
Heath Hen – View # 3

Pigeon" by Todd McGrain - View # 1
Passenger Pigeon – View # 1
Pigeon" by Todd McGrain View # 2
Passenger Pigeon – View # 2
"Passenger Pigeon" by Todd McGrain - View # 3
Passenger Pigeon – View # 3

"Passenger Pigeon" by Todd McGrain - View # 4
Passenger Pigeon – View # 4
"Passenger Pigeon" by Todd McGrain - View # 5
Passenger Pigeon View # 5
A Panorama of "Passenger Pigeon" by Todd McGrain
Panorama of Passenger Pigeon Installation

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Other People’s Art: Lost Birds on a Rainy Day

The George Eastman House exhibit, in 2012, of  Todd McGrain’s Sculptures from The Lost Bird Project,  offered me an unexpected opportunity for closure.  When I was young, I had read about the fate of the Passenger Pigeon and many other extinct species that had passed from the earth only a few generations earlier than my own birth.  A sense of profound loss followed me as I matured and read works such as A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold and Wildlife in America by Peter Matthiessen. These were among other classics of environmentalism that I found in the library of my mother, who was a bird watcher as well as a lover of art and music.  Somehow the story of the Passenger Pigeon touched me the most.  Decades after I read of the species’s demise, I finally connected to a sense of mourning while visiting Todd’s sculptures.  This was also true as I watched Todd’s film on this project during one of his visits to the museum.

On the last weekend of the visit of the Lost Bird to Rochester, I did my own photographic homage to Todd’s collection of sculpture.  And a few months later, I also wrote a poem entitled Lament for the Lost Birds as another statement on the sense of the tragic loss within our world.

Photographs take at a visit to the George Eastman House Gardens of Sculptures from The Lost Bird Project by Todd McGrain

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