Sparrow 4 Viscosity Animals Printmaking

A solitary orange bird, carved into bold contours and striated marks, advances with a quiet insistence across a field of ash-gray texture, as though warmth were trying to survive within a hushed, industrial air. The composition stages a dialogue between organic presence and rigid order: the bird’s forward thrust and tapering beak counter the vertical bars that read like fence, shadow, or the measured cadence of time. Flecks of pale pigment across its back soften the silhouette into something weathered yet resilient, suggesting a creature bearing the dust of its environment while refusing to dim. In this restrained palette, the small blaze of color becomes a moral center—an emblem of persistence, migration, and the stubborn pulse of life in confined spaces.