Feathers, maps, physics & skulls

...from the same sketchbook in between paintings: the maps get torn up, the pages from the old physics book get ripped into strips, a feather is found. The pen & colored pencils come out to notate and embellish.

..and then from some notes on lyra choreography to a small skull portrait & a list of painting ideas:

bird, hand(s), and skull

In the studio the stillest things come begging for theater. They ask for wings, they ask to be held, they ask for the curlicue flourish, and they encourage me to direct with iridescent willfullness, pencil coming in later as an aside to the audience, and my own hand given the supporting role.
Those ghost arms and hands--I don't know whose idea that was...