There's Steel Flight

A dead bird hovers, cradling a giant ladle pouring molten steel, above a landscape of remnants of a steel industrial landscape in the Mahoning... more

by Diana Ludwig

Title

There's Steel Flight

Artist

Diana Ludwig

Medium

Painting - Pastel, Acrylic, Watercolour Pencil, Clay

Description

A dead bird hovers, cradling a giant ladle pouring molten steel, above a landscape of remnants of a steel industrial landscape in the Mahoning Valley, in the Youngstown-Warren area of northeast Ohio. On the bottom is the coke plant of Warren. The bird's eyes are dried, sunken, dead hollow. Along the top are a sort of stations-of the-cross of a depiction of a pilot's plane -- they are a memorial to this pilot friend who passed away a few months ago and whose aerial photos the landscape drawings are based on.

Uploaded

May 28th, 2009