Starling in the Jungle

Starling in the Jungle was created with pencil, charcoal, acrylic, natural inks and vintage flower & bird cut outs.

Size: 59 cm x 42 cm 

Imagine the jungle of life is a literal jungle.  You admit that you have a pretty good life. You have a lovely tree house but you’ve come to realize that you want to take control over the direction of your life.

As you begin exploring the jungle, you first only change vines when you can touch the next vine in your route. You build upon your courage and realize that you can take bolder actions. You want to explore more of the jungle and this means soaring through the air and reaching for a vine that’s further away. In order to explore further, you find that sometimes you have to let go of the vine in your hand without being able to see the next vine. You just have to know that it’s there.

You have a choice, you can stay in the tree and cling to a single vine of your current existence.  Or.

You can swing out as far as you are able, take a flying leap and embrace what’s it’s like to live fully.

Starlings are said to represent everything from freedom, to prosperity, to love.