Encouragement (Avian Companions)

Faceted birds, assembled like origami from prisms of scarlet, cobalt, and amber, perch on a branch that seems to float across a softly striated atmosphere, where light behaves less like illumination than like a memory of dusk. The composition balances stillness and imminent motion: long, blade-like tail feathers pull the eye downward while the angled beaks and tilted heads suggest an intimate, alert exchange. Around them, simplified blossoms and leaves act as quiet counterpoints—small pulses of tenderness that temper the crystalline geometry—so that nature appears not depicted but refracted, as if emotion itself has been cut into planes. In this suspended scene, the work meditates on how fragility can be engineered, and how intimacy can survive even within a world rendered in shards.