@hollyr.eth

Framedl 2026-10-02 1/6* Audubon's Golden Eagle rises over a chasm with a hare locked in its grip. In the bottom corner, nearly invisible, a tiny hunter crosses the ravine on a log with a dead eagle on his back. It was probably Audubon, painting his own exploit into the scene. The other meaning of the word is in how he got his model: a live eagle bought in Boston, studied in its cage, then killed and wired into the pose. He wrote about it in his journal. An exploit *and* an exploitation, in the same plate.

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