Morning 5 (Regal Rooster)

Suspended in a field of near-silence, the rooster emerges as a dense constellation of inked textures—feather by feather—its body grounded in obsessive mark-making while its crimson comb ignites like a small flare of insistence. The composition’s generous negative space creates a contemplative pause, framing the animal not as pastoral ornament but as a solitary emblem of vigilance, poised between the patterned canopy above and the bristling grass below. Repetition and variation in the surrounding motifs echo the rhythms of nature and habit, suggesting a life shaped by cycles—dawn’s promise, territorial pride, and the fragile dignity of standing alert within an ordered world.