Work · 07

Fly

Birds rising up an otherwise empty bedroom wall, finished with a hand-cut red seal near the bed.

The restraint is the point. The wall is large and almost entirely bare — the birds occupy a narrow path up the middle and nothing else competes with them.

Each bird is two or three strokes. The seal is cut by hand and stamped, the way a drawing is signed.

Medium: Ink
Surface: Plaster, painted white
Scope: One bedroom wall
Finish: Matt

The finished wall

Ink birds rising up a white bedroom wall above the bed — Up the middle of the wall and nowhere else.

The birds continuing around the corner of the room — Around the corner, thinning out.

Close view of the hand-cut red seal — The seal, cut by hand and stamped.

The bedroom with the birds and the soft wall behind the bed — The room as a whole.

How it was made

The first birds going onto the bare wall — The first birds, on a bare wall.

The birds part finished, with the seal already placed — Part finished, seal already placed.

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