3Rd World (City of the Lost Birds)

Seen from a vertiginous, upward vantage, the city’s hard geometries converge like a man-made canyon, yet the sky remains a bruised, breathing field where two birds cut a brief, lyrical interval of freedom. In the foreground, a fox-like creature emerging from a cratered, planet-surface sphere introduces a surreal ecology—part sentinel, part survivor—suggesting nature’s persistence even when displaced into the logic of urban and cosmic machinery. The sepia palette binds architecture, atmosphere, and organism into a single aged dream, as if memory itself were oxidizing the future, while the sweeping metallic arc below reads as both protective shell and encroaching apparatus. Tension between ascent and enclosure, wildness and system, becomes the work’s quiet narrative: an elegy for open sky held inside the city’s relentless frame.