Mango's Last Stand began with a neighbor's request and a small envelope of canary feathers. When her beloved canary Mango passed away, she asked Debra to create something to honor him. Debra responded with this luminous mixed-media collage — two canaries built entirely from Mango's own feathers, perched in a peaceful garden paradise. It is at once a portrait, a memorial, and an imagining of wherever good birds go.
The lavender sky is layered from tissue, rice, and mulberry papers, giving it a soft, watercolor-like depth. Paper and fabric branches arc across the composition, with each feathered Mango perched mid-song. A die-cut bird silhouette adds a third presence drifting in the background sky. Below, blue mulberry-paper water, pink shoreline, and rolling green land build a quiet landscape, while the foreground blooms with found-object flowers — white daisies, pink dahlias, purple orchids, and delicate baby's breath — alongside paper butterflies and trailing vines.
Ready to hang; black shadow-box frame included
16"H × 12"W × 2"D · One of a kind · Signed
Handcrafted by Sarasota Artist, Debra Rich.
Mango's Last Stand began with a neighbor's request and a small envelope of canary feathers. When her beloved canary Mango passed away, she asked Debra to create something to honor him. Debra responded with this luminous mixed-media collage — two canaries built entirely from Mango's own feathers, perched in a peaceful garden paradise. It is at once a portrait, a memorial, and an imagining of wherever good birds go.
The lavender sky is layered from tissue, rice, and mulberry papers, giving it a soft, watercolor-like depth. Paper and fabric branches arc across the composition, with each feathered Mango perched mid-song. A die-cut bird silhouette adds a third presence drifting in the background sky. Below, blue mulberry-paper water, pink shoreline, and rolling green land build a quiet landscape, while the foreground blooms with found-object flowers — white daisies, pink dahlias, purple orchids, and delicate baby's breath — alongside paper butterflies and trailing vines.
Ready to hang; black shadow-box frame included
16"H × 12"W × 2"D · One of a kind · Signed
Handcrafted by Sarasota Artist, Debra Rich.
