Known for her abstract expressionism, Maxine Yalovitz Blankenship is an extremely accomplished artist with a piece soon to be placed in the MFA.

This 30x22 oil on canvas painting featured here is part of her "Thirty-one Ways of Looking at a Nest" collection.  She tells the story as this:

The nest, offering protection, is seen as home; it may be felt as a gift, a mysterious key to Nature's secrets.  Nests reveal the fragility of our existence; the egg, our hope.  Birds are builders and voyagers - symbols of freedom.

I recall the paper bird from childhood.  It spins around and whistles in the wind.