Sparrow 7

This stylized bird, rendered in a blaze of orange against a weathered blue ground, feels less like a natural specimen than a compact emblem of vitality held in suspension. The bold contour and simplified anatomy create a crisp, graphic certainty, while the scratched, crosshatched surface breaks that clarity with a sense of age—like memory scored into pigment and print. Perched on dark, linear bars that read as both musical staff and urban wire, it occupies the threshold between song and silence, motion and pause, suggesting resilience as a deliberate stance rather than a fleeting flight.