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Dodo Clock

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The Life and Times of One Raphus cucculatus

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Dodo for a $15 Ko-fi supporter

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The Death of One Raphus cucullatus

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A Proverbial Feathursday

The contents and linocuts of Australian artist and fine-press printer Mike Hudson’s (1939-2021) As Dead as the Proverbial… uses the extinct Dodo (Raphus cucullatus), a flightless bird that once inhabited the island of Mauritius, to highlight the fact that in today’s age animals are still going extinct. The book consists of a variety of writings, from encyclopedia entries and magazine articles to the author’s own musings about the fate of the Dodo. In a progressive countdown, we see the bird's life cycle that is also representative of its approach toward extinction, as it progresses from a simple egg on the title page, loses feathers, and eventually becomes a singular feather.

The book’s title references the proverb: ‘as dead as a dodo bird’ and the title on the book's cover is surrounded by the names of Australian animals that are also at risk of extinction and could soon become the object of their own proverb. The endpapers include the names of other endangered Australian species, to further emphasize the potential for not just one animal like the Dodo to go extinct, but also countless others.

As Dead as the Proverbial… was printed in 1989 at Mike Hudson's Wayzgoose Press in Katoomba, Australia in an edition of 75 copies signed by the printers. The text was typeset by Hudson's long-time partner Jadwiga Jarvis (1947-2021) in Monotype Baskerville and Times New Roman, and the pages of endangered species set in a variety of Garamond types, all printed on Mohawk Letterpress paper. The design and linocuts are by Hudson. Our copy is from the collection of our late friend Dennis Bayuzick.

View other books from the collection of Dennis Bayuzick.

View another book from Wayzgoose Press.

View more Feathursday posts.

– Sarah S., Special Collections Graduate Intern

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26th August 2022

Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) in the Hall of Birds at Carnegie Museum of Natural History.

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Voor Antigone Kortrijk

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Day of the Dodo

Dutch colonization of Mauritius spells the beginning of the end for the enigmatic bird, the dodo.

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New Alebrije!! Dodo

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The Dodo for my Limited edition artist series bottles for Rabbit Hole Distillery. I reimagined Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland characters in a sort of Steam Punk vehicle riding world. Alice is all grown up and tatted with Dinah as co-pilot in the front. The Dodo, (who was a metaphor for politicians) has a Boss Tweed type driver atop his destructive steel behemoth. The Caterpillar has emerged from his cocoon even more twee and affectatious than before and flies away in a puff of hookah smoke. Will Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum ever make it out of the forest while working against their own interests? The Queen’s Card Guardsman patrols the night skies. The Queen of Hearts is imposing on her half flamingo-half machine. “Dareringer” is single barrel cask strength Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey finished in Pedro Ximénez sherry casks at 118 proof and luckily is my favorite of all their offerings. Available at select retailers in South Carolina and Texas. Posters, T-shirts, and stickers are also available. This was an incredible amount of work conceptualizing and designing and redesigning these characters and backgrounds. Alice in wonderland is beloved and has been reimagined so many times it took so long to develop something new. We had several half starts and reworks but in the end it was worth it, the bottles are beautifully printed and even have spot gloss embossing on the art. Time for me to go have 2 or 3 (or 4) fingers, Cheers! (also there will be more posts with behind the scenes and details stay tuned). See more of this project on my website

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Source details and larger version.

I’m collecting some weird, rare variants of Alice in Wonderland imagery.

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Made a simplified patch version of my icon, a doodle of a dodo

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Day 29 of #birdtober2023 from @aholmesartstudio is Artist's Choice. I choose a dodo howling at the moon.

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Day 11 & 12 of IDKtober!

A silly little clown and an extinct animal.

The rat clown is tiny but very skilled. The dodo, alas, has had better days.