

This vertical totem stages a quiet dialogue between the human and the animal, stacking a masklike face beneath a winged presence as if thought itself were taking flight. The carved textures and burnished browns catch the daylight in small, tactile flickers, turning the surface into a living skin that oscillates between earthly grain and ceremonial sheen. Its elongated proportions feel both watchful and protective, suggesting a guardian figure where identity is not fixed but layered—part ancestry, part spirit, part landscape—rooted in the ground yet insistently reaching upward.







