My admiration for Q. Cassetti increases every time I hop on over to look at her work online. She’s got a domain of her own now - QCassetti.com.
I particular, I suggest that you take a look over at her avian flu gallery, which is filled with stark images in Cassetti’s distinctive style, each one combining the concepts of death and fertility, as when a skull emerges from a cracked egg, or when death itself seems to be on the nest.
Beautiful is not the word I’d choose for this particular collection, though it is certainly of worth to behold.
As a small caveat, however, I wonder what Q would do with the concept of an ornithological angel of death delayed, never arriving. What with all the hype about H5N1 plague being only a matter of time, the bird flu has turned out to be a health crisis without much actual sickness.