Field Guide : Common Loon
Unlimited edition. 18 x 24 inch, museum-quality poster on matte paper.
Refined elegance – white and hues of ash and black with a thin stripe of loon-eye carmine at the base. Who you calling “common”? 😉
The common loon’s call is at least a little familiar to you. It’s used in countless movies to convey a sense of wildness, mystery, foreboding, or isolation. (Hollywood loves adding the call of this Northern Hemisphere waterbird to South American or African jungle scenes. 🤦) Those cinematic associations owe much to European and European American folklore, in which loons are harbingers of drowning or frightful storms, and their calls, especially their beautiful location wail and hyena-like alarm tremolo, are linked to death and madness. That’s a far cry from the loon’s symbolic significance in indigenous folklore and mythology, where loons appear as bringers of light, creators, restorers of sight, or heroic messengers.
Note: These archival poster prints feature rich, appealing colors. I encourage customers to take care in handling them until they are framed/protected for display; the darker colors on the matte paper can be scratched. They ship rolled, so customers need to flatten them before framing (or have their framer do so).
Charitable Sales Model: Whenever one of these poster prints is purchased, a charitable contribution equal to 10% of the print’s cost (or $3.60) is made to a nonprofit working to tackle environmental or social challenges. Read more about my charitable sales model here.
Unlimited edition. 18 x 24 inch, museum-quality poster on matte paper.
Refined elegance – white and hues of ash and black with a thin stripe of loon-eye carmine at the base. Who you calling “common”? 😉
The common loon’s call is at least a little familiar to you. It’s used in countless movies to convey a sense of wildness, mystery, foreboding, or isolation. (Hollywood loves adding the call of this Northern Hemisphere waterbird to South American or African jungle scenes. 🤦) Those cinematic associations owe much to European and European American folklore, in which loons are harbingers of drowning or frightful storms, and their calls, especially their beautiful location wail and hyena-like alarm tremolo, are linked to death and madness. That’s a far cry from the loon’s symbolic significance in indigenous folklore and mythology, where loons appear as bringers of light, creators, restorers of sight, or heroic messengers.
Note: These archival poster prints feature rich, appealing colors. I encourage customers to take care in handling them until they are framed/protected for display; the darker colors on the matte paper can be scratched. They ship rolled, so customers need to flatten them before framing (or have their framer do so).
Charitable Sales Model: Whenever one of these poster prints is purchased, a charitable contribution equal to 10% of the print’s cost (or $3.60) is made to a nonprofit working to tackle environmental or social challenges. Read more about my charitable sales model here.
Unlimited edition. 18 x 24 inch, museum-quality poster on matte paper.
Refined elegance – white and hues of ash and black with a thin stripe of loon-eye carmine at the base. Who you calling “common”? 😉
The common loon’s call is at least a little familiar to you. It’s used in countless movies to convey a sense of wildness, mystery, foreboding, or isolation. (Hollywood loves adding the call of this Northern Hemisphere waterbird to South American or African jungle scenes. 🤦) Those cinematic associations owe much to European and European American folklore, in which loons are harbingers of drowning or frightful storms, and their calls, especially their beautiful location wail and hyena-like alarm tremolo, are linked to death and madness. That’s a far cry from the loon’s symbolic significance in indigenous folklore and mythology, where loons appear as bringers of light, creators, restorers of sight, or heroic messengers.
Note: These archival poster prints feature rich, appealing colors. I encourage customers to take care in handling them until they are framed/protected for display; the darker colors on the matte paper can be scratched. They ship rolled, so customers need to flatten them before framing (or have their framer do so).
Charitable Sales Model: Whenever one of these poster prints is purchased, a charitable contribution equal to 10% of the print’s cost (or $3.60) is made to a nonprofit working to tackle environmental or social challenges. Read more about my charitable sales model here.