Brisons Veor - Sankofa bird

"The Akan people of Ghana use an adinkra symbol to represent the same concept. One version of it is similar to the eastern symbol of a heart, and another is that of a bird with its head turned backwards to symbolically capture an egg depicted above its back. It symbolizes taking from the past what is good and bringing it into the present in order to make positive progress through the benevolent use of knowledge."

I started thinking about the Sankofa bird after I began playing with the swallow inspired by the bench end at St. Just church.

In these studies I am playing with what is the most harmonizing combination of the left-facing and right-facing birds.

Here I am taking some of the ideas from the bench end at St. Just-in-Penwith  (shell, birds and crescent moon) and applying to the Sankofa birds. 

Here I am trying to make some finished pieces using these same elements.