The crows mantain that a single crow could destroy the heavens. Doubtless that is so, but it proves nothing against the heavens, for the heavens signify simply: the impossibility of crows.
~ Kafka
Today, I will draw things.
A minor musing of mine in Photoshop from this morning. Plus two poems from Ted Hughes to fuel the imagination. Enjoy.
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Here’s a sketch of mine from this morning. It didn’t scan well, but I don’t particularly care, and it’s unlikely that I’ll finish it. Although I’m considering doing a mindless sort of meditation on birds like this every morning. Here’s some owl related material for you to enjoy, since I appear to be somewhat at a loss for words today:
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“Under the flag
Of each his faction, they to battle bring
Their embryon atoms.” – Milton
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Kareeda ni
Karasu no tomarikeri
Aki no kure
On the dead limb
squats a crow –
autumn night.
~ A haiku from Matsuo Basho (1664-1694).
Image: Crows, 1766; pair of six-fold screens; ink and gold on paper by Maruyama Okyo (like Basho, also from the Edo period).
