Sunday, January 10, 2016
Meet the Woman Who Crafts Giant Feathered Wings
People.com: It should come as no surprise that Alexis Noriega always wanted to soar through the air like a peregrine falcon. As a girl, she spent hours watching birds take wing in the wild and she asked for a green-cheeked parakeet as her first pet at age 5. Then several years ago, the 28-year-old Phoenix artist signed up for flying and skydiving lessons to satisfy her urge to have a bird's eye view.
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The craftsmanship of these wings look amazing, and I really hope I get the chance to see a pair of these wings in person. Some of them look like they’d be hard to wear given how large they are proportionally to a person. I used to go to the Renaissance Faire every year with a friend, and this reminds me of a lot of the things I saw there, particularly of this one woman who made extremely complex (and expensive) fairy wings. The wings were made on a complex wire frame with a semi-transparent fabric stretched over them. I talked to the woman who makes the fairy wings about the process, and it was clear that, like Noriega, the wing making was an intensive process that took up a lot of her time, but she loved making them. In general, a lot of the craftspeople who sell products at the renaissance faire make one very specific product very well. I’m always impressed by these sorts of things, both because of the products themselves and the determination and passion it takes to perfect such an uncommon skill.
The craftsmanship in these wings is stunning. The article doesn’t mention what the artists’ background is. It would seem that this type of craft would be difficult without some kind of background in art. I’m also not sure why one would need six pairs of these wings, though they beautiful. Aside from using real feathers, I wonder what makes these wings different from others. From angels to crows, feathered characters show up in movies, TV, and theater. Right now I’m thinking of Alan Rickman in Dogma. I also wonder why this particular artist is featured in People. On a completely different spectrum of this article, I do think that people wonder what it is like to fly. (Which also seems to be a recurring theme – Superman, Aladdin, Titanic) I applaud the artist for following inspiration and her dream and creating something spectacular. The passion she has for it is clear in the product she makes.
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