Morning 6 (Under the Canopy)

In this stark, graphic tableau, a single rooster is rendered with meticulous black-and-white incision, its feathers curling into dense rhythms that read like both armor and ornament. A lone flare of red at the comb punctures the otherwise restrained palette, turning the bird into a quiet herald—part sentinel, part sacrifice—against a vast, contemplative field of negative space. The patterned canopy above and the thicketed ground below form a decorative bracket, suggesting a world of cultivated order that the animal inhabits yet subtly resists, poised between domestication and wild presence. The composition’s stillness feels ceremonial, as though dawn’s announcement has been suspended into an emblem of endurance and watchfulness.