Borrowed Plumage, 2025, oil on wood panel, 24 x 24 in. / 60.96 x 60.96 cm.

Borrowed Plumage, Sydney Whitaker, 2025, oil on wood panel, 24 x 24 in. / 60.96 x 60.96 cm.

Borrowed Plumage depicts a great blue heron with feathers formed from the fish it hunts, reflecting the delicate balance of predator and prey in Chesapeake Bay and North American wetlands. Painted in water-mixable oil on a stained wood panel.