HANDMADE ORNITHOLOGY.

Lisa Lloyd has created a life-sized bald eagle that’s made entirely out of paper and card. As Lisa says, “The eagle has now flown to its new home,” which is the reception area of The Villages, a retirement community in Florida that has a population of over 125,000. The eagle will make its debut next week. All photographs © Moose Azim https://www.mooseazim.com

There’s approximately 25,000 paper feathers in the model, and each one was fringed and scored by hand.

Work in progress
It took Lisa about three months to make the model, working three or four days a week on it. The skeleton is made of strong card, and there’s a wire that runs along the top of the wings to give necessary support. The eagle’s wingspan is 6.5 feet (2 meters).

A video about the process: https://vimeo.com/479859544

Lisa’s website: https://www.lisalloyd.net

A previous post about Lisa’s work: https://wp.me/p7LiLW-2pD

This is my 250th post, over a period of four years and four months. (Including a five-month break after the pandemic took hold.) Back at the beginning, I posted twice a week, then once a week, then once a month (or less). I could keep following this trajectory, but once a year might be a little too infrequent. Basically, I’m surprised that I’ve had more than fifty ideas, and indeed many of the posts were suggestions from interested people. In some cases, they were completely put together by much-appreciated infographic friends. (Oh, if only I had more of those.)

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