Seagulls always seem
to be getting a bad press with their reputation for scavenging, etc.
For the SEABIRDS theme
I decided to base my tag on a seagull with a difference - Jonathan Livingston Seagull, from the story by Richard Bach. I love this book and it was great to read it
again before making my tag.
For this gull, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. More than anything else Jonathan Livingston
Seagull loved to fly. Flight for the joy
of flying.
To make the tag, I photocopied a silhouette photo from the
back of the book onto some cloudy sky paper.
Then I wrote a small excerpt from the book using silver ink.
Jonathan held in thought an image
of the great gull-flocks on the shore of another time, and he knew with
practised ease that he was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom
and flight, limited by nothing at all.
The tag is finished with some blue ric-rac at
the bottom, white and grey threads for a
tie with a small seagull feather.
I had trouble taking a photo that showed the true colour of
the tag. This photo of the tag taken before
it was finished shows the actual colour a bit better.
Thanks for looking, Bye for now
Jane xx
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