This little robin bird is an example of a three-dimensional bird similar to a bird or two that you may find flying around in my “Charming Victorian Country Garden Retreat” paper installation at The Mansion at Strathmore in Bethesda, Maryland.

I liked the idea of making a robin. It’s a common bird on the east coast where I’ve lived my whole life. When I was growing up, you wouldn’t see robins until the warmer weather arrived. Every spring, people would spot the first of these red-chested birds and say, “I saw a robin today. It is the first sign of spring!”

The paper sculpture robin, pictured here, was framed in a shadowbox frame and has been sold. I wanted this male robin to look like a young bird, sitting in a tree, slightly hidden among the new spring leaves that are just starting to grow back in.