Black Birds: Rooks, Ravens, Crows, Owls, Jays and Magpies
A Brush With Death
I was drawing this raven and went out on my bike and saw a girl with high patent leather boots, Gucci in style, layed out on the road being attended to by paramedics. The street and traffic stood still and I felt a cold shudder crawl down my back. The raven is deemed to be the bird who appears at death and takes the soul of the virtuous up to heaven. As I road along I thought is the girl dead or has she had a brush with death? Then I thought what about when a raven has a brush with death? An advertisment for a premium brand, a huge back lit bill board on the motorway.
The Claw Cuffs
This is a presentation at the Dragon’s Den when an obsolete designer and lawyer come together to make money, they propose that birds should do bird and we should put bad birds in the clink, with specialy designed clinking bling cuffs.
The Raven’s Tale
This is a story about how a guilty Raven avoids prosecution for Murderous Acts, is a comment on all the things people get away.
N.B. Images and Text © Sally Titterington 2011
'Hear us, you who are no more than leaves always falling, you mortals benighted by nature,
You enfeebled and powerless creatures of earth always haunting a world of mere shadows,
Entities without wings, insubstantial as dreams, you ephemeral things, you human beings:
Turn your minds to our words, our ethereal words, for the words of the birds last forever'
[Astrophane’s The Birds]
