The Leigh Yawkey Woodson art museum in Wausau, 40 miles north, has an international show each fall called "Birds in Art." We drove up and walked through it last week. There are many memorable paintings, carvings, photos and statues.
The one that struck me was a painting of deflated bird-shaped balloons lying on a driveway surface. There were all sorts of celebrations of magnificent birds in flight or feeding babies but I thought the person who connected the Birds in Art exhibit with the sight of three balloons shaped like various birds showed extra sensitivity and imagination.
