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Let Your Fancy Take Flight with "Books of a Feather"


Books of a Feather
Instead the three Greek muses of theater, a trio of plucky birds welcome visitors Alice McKean Young Neighborhood Library.
By
Emma Schkloven
2/10/2021 at 6:00am
Published in the December 2020 issue of
Houstonia
Drawing parallels between the physical flight of birds and the flights of imagination that burst from the pages of books, Dixie Friend Gay’s nationally award-winning sculpture took roost outside the Alice McKean Young Neighborhood Library in 2017 as part of the city’s feathering of its public art nest. So fly, right?
Like the three Greek muses of theater, a trio of plucky birds welcome visitors to the library. To bring her gigantic birds to life (they needed a lift to install them), the Houston-based artist covered the 15-foot concrete and stainless-steel bodies with thousands of pieces of multi-colored glass and ceramic mosaic tiles, creating arcs of colors and patterns that capture the free movement of feathered plumage rippling in the wind.

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