The antique shoe buttons really belonged here; 'good thing I saved them.They were my great-grandmother's.
"Four and twenty blackbirds"....The finished piece is part of a show at Beet Gallery in Charlotte, NC through January. It's 18" high.
In the 1700s there were recipes for baking live birds into pies so that they would fly out when opened. Maybe that's like purgatory?? The Mother Goose rhyme might also have something to do with one of the wives of Henry the Eighth. Nobody knows for sure, but it's a haunting little ditty nonetheless.
