What started as a way to show appreciation for my friends and peers, turned into one of the longest series that I have ever worked on. Back in high school, it was an end of the year tradition for all of the advanced placement studio art students to make five small art pieces for an art trade. We were all each assigned a classmate and then got to create what we felt was fitting for that person. I have always had a love for our aviary friends and decided to figure out what bird I thought best personified the person assigned to me. I then created a linocut print for each of them. This ended up becoming an ongoing series for me, and I continue to add to it and share it with my friends.