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♢ EDITORIAL by Sal McIntyre, New York ♢

The use of birds as a theme in artwork is as universal as the human desire to look up into the sky. Birds embody such concepts as lifting up above what weighs us down, freedom of thoughts and ideas, and even the exhilaration of the act of flying, something that people have aspired towards ever since the Wright Brothers proved it was possible. This impulse is reflected all around us, in popular culture as song lyrics, as fashion prints, as feathered costumes and haute-couture, in advertising where a famous caffeinated beverage promises it “gives you …