Morning (Diptych)

Set against a field of tessellated gold that reads like a secular icon ground, the paired chickens become quiet heralds of daily ritual elevated to reverence. The diptych format creates a measured dialogue—one bird mottled in light, the other cloaked in shadow—so that balance and difference feel like two facets of the same domestic mythology. Crisp contours and the punctuating red combs anchor the composition, while the shimmering background dissolves spatial certainty, suggesting memory and labor as something both ordinary and luminous. In this suspended, gilded space, the humble subject carries the dignity of survival, caretaking, and cyclical time.