Brute Blood of the Air

9 x 9, framed/matted with glass

Wood panel, rice paper, acrylic, charcoal, house paint

Surprise element - pattern created from the bottom of a painted flip-flop

Inspired by Leda and the Swan, William Butler Yeats, excerpt:

Being so caught up,

So mastered by the brute blood of the air,

Did she put on his knowledge with his power

Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?