Flightless Birds

5"x7" Micron pen, collage, colored pencil, gouache & watercolor on paper.

This work of art is in a custom made wood, archival frame and mat. The outside of the frame measures 11 1/2”x 13 1/2” x 1 1/4.”

The image of the boy is drawn from a painting of a scullery boy from the 18th century. The work is reflecting on potential, or the lack there of; by choice, actions or nature.

This work is an “Ontological Mooring” which was part of an an ongoing art practice about kinesthetic knowing that was begun in May of 2016. The term is what philosophers would refer to as the appreciation of and a response to what is real right here and now. In a world that is so often dissociated from the present, these works are a centering act of being in the moment.