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Search the images in this book for a wonder of creativity and learn about the importance of feathers as symbols of our aspirations.

Using his ancestor's tools, mainly surgical scalpels, Chris Maynard carves meaning into feathers.

Feathers, themselves are perfect creations. Maynard adds interest, nuance, and content for us by carving them into images that we can relate to and find meaning in.

Instead of chapters, he writes snippets for each image, exploring the symbolism and myths associated with feathers, the values and thoughts that arise when observing birds, their flight, and their behavior.

This book is the first of four new books of Maynard's art: Meaning. The following books will be about Flight, Biology, and the last book will be about Art including his process for working this unique technique.

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Website price, signed: $60 USD

Fourth Printing: April, 2020

Hardcover: 96 pages, 8.5 by 11 inches landscape

Publisher: Aviva Publishing, New York 2014

Language: English

ISBN: 978-1-940984--0

Feathers: Form & Function

Chris Maynard’s book, Feathers, Form and Function: what feathers are, how they work, and why we find them alluring offers a quality tabletop book of his art with insight into how feathers grow, how they evolved, what they are made of, and what they do for the birds. He explores how feathers have given humans meaning for millennium.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a bird in flight? What would it feel like to have feathers that could carry you anywhere you wished?

In Feathers, Form, and Function, you’ll find insight into these questions and new ways of seeing through an artist, a biologist’s, a philosopher, and a bird’s eyes. With a small scalpel for a tool, artist Chris Maynard carves bird themes out of feathers. Each design highlights the feathers’ beauty and forms and calls attention to topics important to us such as flight, hope, and transformation. With a creative sense of design and a bit of humor, the artist offers a sense of the lives and movements of the birds he portrays.