In this painting, we see Munch’s influence again. The time of day is more ambiguous in this work. The animals are black, and their eyes are glowing. There is also a personal reference. Sara explains, “There’s the eagle in the tree. I do a lot of eagles in trees because of a story my uncle once told me about how he returned to the ranch where he and my dad grew up and he saw two eagles in a nest and couldn’t really believe it, he had never seen eagles living there before. And he felt like the eagle was his father, who had died when he was a teenager, coming back to tell him that he knew my uncle was about to get remarried. My uncle got back home, turned on his computer and found an email from an old neighbor that said something like: I was by the ranch yesterday. There are a pair of eagles nesting. Your father has come home.”
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In this painting, we see Munch’s influence again. The time of day is more ambiguous in this work. The animals are black, and their eyes are glowing. There is also a personal reference. Sara explains, “There’s the eagle in the tree. I do a lot of eagles in trees because of a story my uncle once told me about how he returned to the ranch where he and my dad grew up and he saw two eagles in a nest and couldn’t really believe it, he had never seen eagles living there before. And he felt like the eagle was his father, who had died when he was a teenager, coming back to tell him that he knew my uncle was about to get remarried. My uncle got back home, turned on his computer and found an email from an old neighbor that said something like: I was by the ranch yesterday. There are a pair of eagles nesting. Your father has come home.”
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