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Catch the Bird, Catch the Bird
Story and Painting by Lehan Winifred Ramsay
Things break down. They break down badly. And whether it’s a small problem or a huge one, that breakdown devastates basic functions. Every small thing becomes impossible. Not just impossible, but each separate function clumps together with all the other functions forming a large unmoveable obstacle.
At first things are a dark hole. When it’s possible to think, the thought is: help me!
Help me help me help me. And you wait for that, you wait for something outside of yourself to come and put things right. And it doesn’t happen. Anger, frustration, despair. That’s disaster. And then something else clicks in. A straining to recover.
A tiny bird, a tiny hope. Almost impossible to view with the naked eye. The bird ruffles its feathers and catches your eye. It moves, it darts from one place to another. That’s hope. Catch the bird. Catch the bird.
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
Thank you Lehan, for another lovely story and another lovely painting!
🙂
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I must admit that my mood improves when a see a colourful bird, or a pair, feeding, whatever.
Saw a pair of yellow Tailed Black Cockatoos last week. I didn’t paint them, of course!
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P.s. Love the painting, not only the colours, but your bird looks quite dynamic. I think it’s hard to capture that!
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A lovely painting. You did catch the bird perfectly and in flight as well.
Thank you giving us the joy of your work.
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Gosh that’s a gorgeous red. If I were to name the mood the painting conveys to me, it would be a kind of hopeful anxiety.
After a long (for Sydney summer) dry spell, we had a big rain recently. Now there are 2 and 2 halves flowers on my brilliant red-purple chrysanthemum. It hasn’t had a single day without at least one flower the whole season. My bright orange one is budding too. The soil for the other one was much better. It was in the vegie patch and I’d dug manure into the clay a few times before.
I suppose it is too early to dig some manure into a patch of your garden? The consensus is it shouldn’t come from a dog or cat. More difficult to compost it properly to make it good for the garden, and human risk from parasites.
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Uric acid is OK. Especially for citrus.
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lehan, this one is very beautiful, lovely brushstrokes; i’m trying to picture it against a dark background and it will look even more stunning…
the story is perfetto too.
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