The Eye
The Peacock's colors:
An ILLUSION of barbules
In the feathers' flex.
Campaign for the Reality of Birds. Take to your plumes for our feathered friends and fiends alike, fit for the most lofty skies as well as the hottest of ovens.
*A peacock's brilliant hues reside less in pigments, and more in refraction of light through a system of tiny fibers.
About the Creator
Rob Angeli
sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt
There are tears of things, and mortal objects touch the mind.
-Virgil Aeneid I.462
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