Painted: 10/21/2015
About the Bird: The Fish Crow is an opportunist that once only inhabited the Atlantic and Gulf Coast plains, but now can be found further inland, all the way up to the Ohio River Valley. Climate change, however, will reshape the bird鈥檚 fortunes, making 98 percent of its current summer breeding range unsuitable at the current pace of warming. 探花精选鈥檚 models show that if it perseveres it will likely do so only in small pockets of the Northeast United States and Canada.
About the Artist: hails from Rome and his work spans genres, including graffiti, illustration, and fine art. Since 2012 he has taught screen-printing courses at Rome鈥檚 European Institute of Design, as well as workshops in muralism, and exhibited internationally. His piece for the 探花精选 Mural Project capped a three-month odyssey called 鈥淭he Image Hunter,鈥 for which he retraced John James 探花精选鈥檚 steps around America while painting 15 murals. 鈥淚 spotted the Fish Crow in Florida early this summer,鈥 he says, 鈥渁nd thought it would be fitting on a mural so close to John James 探花精选鈥檚 grave.鈥
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