This is the first of the small pieces for the New Zealand show and the idea of riding an ostrich appealed.
I have made people riding normal birds in some of my small sculptures but I also make quite a lot of "tall birds" in a sort of ostrich form. Perhaps I was remembering when as a kid I saw Disney's "Swiss Family Robinson which had a scene of kids riding ostriches along the beach... well I'm not sure but my imagination turned this way.