
creating like a bowerbird
Last year, I was introduced to the bowerbird through Sibella Court’s book . It’s a gorgeous book about creating beautiful interiors with collected items. As someone who loves collecting, hunting, pecking, and curating, that book was right up my alley. But, I recently did more research on the bowerbird and realized I have more in common with this bird than I knew. The bowerbird goes beyond collection and creating, but collects and creates very specifically. The satin bowerbird collects and decorates only with things that are a specific shade of blue. He’ll even go so far as to pick things out of his surrounding area that are colors he doesn’t like (reds and pinks specifically.) If you’ve read my blog for a while, my de-redding things will have a familiar ring. In my personal creative time (creative work that isn’t specifically for creating profit but is just to play for





