Lights All Askew in the Heavens

While walking in the park near my house yesterday, I was lucky enough to come across a sparrow skeleton--past the messy parts of decomposition but still hanging together. It was too beautiful not to draw, so I brought it home (hooking a stick gently through its ribcage so as not to handle it):

 

(can you see all the tiny vertebrae still intact? Incredible)

And did this tonight--a drawing, probably the first of what will be many pieces based on the bones.

I'm really amazed at the dynamism of the form--the evocative ambiguity of it, the movement and rhythm, the contrast of textures and densities. A very rewarding examination!