A Bird’s Building Its Own Nest

“There is some of the same fitness in a man’s building his own house that there is in a bird’s building its own nest. Who knows but if men constructed their dwellings with their own hands, and provided food for themselves and families simply and honestly enough, the poetic faculty would be universally developed, as birds universally sing when they are so engaged? But alas! we do like cowbirds and cuckoos, which lay their eggs in nests which other birds have built, and cheer no traveler with their chattering and unmusical notes. Shall we forever resign the pleasure of construction to the carpenter?”
Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Awakening, Part of the Traveling Man series of sculptures, Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas

The Traveling Man Sculptures of Deep Ellum Celebrate Their 10th Anniversary

 

Travelling Man… and a jet, Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas

 

Travelling Man – sculpture east of Downtown Dallas

Bike Riders under the Travelling Man

Travelling Man, Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas

Tourists reflected in a metal bird. Travelling Man Sculpture, Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas

 

The Travelling Man (two versions)
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas