
So when I finished this piece the first time I wasn’t really happy with the lower half- so I guess it wasn’t really finished- but it was in a show so I had to show it as is. Once back from the gallery it sat around for awhile bothering me and so – finally- I decided to start over on the lower section. There were several versions. Eventually it turned into a mass of branches and roots with a little open pocket inhabited by a lost explorer. A branch with a sparrow feeding a cuckoo chick developed in the lower right.
The original version-
