Watcher Above the Hollow Peaks

Description

The raptor faces forward while pines rise from its feathers and small birds cross above. Beneath the beak, a floating island holds jagged peaks and a tiny roofed structure, its underside dissolving into long drops. Scale becomes a form of protection. The bird appears large enough to watch over an entire world, yet the small building below gives the floating landscape a personal center—someone may live there, waiting beneath that gaze. The hybrid form suggests guardianship, wilderness, and the unsettling possibility that the landscape has its own awareness. The longer it is viewed, the less certain it becomes whether the bird contains the mountains or the mountains have taken the shape of the bird.