I draw highly-detailed abstract pen and ink drawings by hand. This piece is called, "Glorious Eagle." The drawing asks how must evolution have designed the eagle? Consider the neural avionics that would be needed simply for hunting. In this drawing, I imagine a prototype eagle on the workbench of the gods. It is a mechanical rendition is purely for studying the airframe. The more beautiful flesh and blood creature would follow.��The wing to your left was not completed as the artist felt to do so would add far to much weight to the drawing. Inspired by the Venus de Milo, the wing was "broken" to achieve artistic purity. Its grace of line as it trails off into space enhances the aesthetic grace and balance.�
Upon viewing the drawing, an ornithologist commented that the beak should be hooked. I claimed that I had an out inasmuch as this version was a prototype.�The ornithologist would not accept such a lame excuse and argued that I simply did not know my birds. I artist later mailed a note to the ornithologist:�
Memo to the gods: Hook the beak on the production model or the ornithologists will screech! He did not think my note was at all funny. In a larger sense
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