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Bäraar

This combines the eponymous Berner Bär with an eagle (Aar, poetic Adler) in the Haida motif.

Aside from the obvious cultural appropriation, this is probably unique, combining an icon from Switzerland with a standard North American eagle or Bundesadler trope.

Title Bäraar
Medium Watercolour and ink on cartridge paper
Artist Derrick Oswald
Dimensions (w × h cm) 29.7 × 41
Date 06.05.2022

watercolor of a bear-eagle in Haida motif

derrick

Derrick

A Canadian electrical engineer living in Switzerland, developing software for over 40 years, e.g. big data for electric distribution utilities and the cloud security space, but now retired.

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