Crow & the Ice Cream

Crow and the Ice Cream came from Ted Hughes' poem Crow and the Birds (1970). It’s full of our beautiful, feathered friends, a tale of how the birds are mainly flying away from human interaction, except Crow. Each bird has its own poetic line, many of those mentioned are regular visitors to the garden, especially at this time of year when I’m feeding them. The poem finishes with this line. “Crow spraddled head-down in the beach garbage, guzzling a dropped ice-cream”. In the whole collection Crow is depicted quite how society sees them in real life but also with very human traits.

Kiln formed glass vessels approx. 25cm diameter and 24cm high (large) and 22cm diameter and 19cm high