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This painting is an appreciation of rapaciousness in nature, inspired by James Dickey’s poem, “The Heaven of Animals.” (below) The owl shown here is doing exactly what it should be doing, what it must be doing in order to survive: it is killing. The four dead mice on the lower branch are echoed by the four living leaves on the branch above. Each is just as natural in its place as the other. The owl, with a halo over its head, and the dead mice, are playing out their sacred parts in a beautiful cycle of life and death and rebirth. The Heaven of Animals Here they are. The soft eyes open.
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