Mixed media collage with linocut, colored pencil, acrylic, found papers
18”w x 24”h

$1000 plus shipping, framed

This piece kind goes along with the piece, Remind Me of My Freedom.

I was thinking about my dear cockatiels, Tweety and Pickles. When I first got them, I had a space so they could come out of their cages and wander about. Their cages were not all that big, so getting out was something they looked forward to each morning. Years later, I bought a really really large cage, and we moved to a place where it was not so safe for them to be out of the cage, so they mostly stayed in the cage. Then a few years after that, I moved to a place where once again they could safely leave their cage, but by this time they had become so accustomed to the cage that they didn’t want to leave it, to the point that they became frantic when I tried to get them out for any reason. I could leave the door open, but they wouldn’t leave the cage.

I think it’s easy to become curiously confined by circumstances. We don’t necessarily see things very clearly, or recognize the freedom we have to leave a situation, so we remain, caged by our own choosing with the door standing wide open.

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