“To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior’s spirit. It takes power to do that.” ~ Carlos Castaneda
I have always believed that a study in contrasts often reveals an underlying interconnectedness. This page directly out of my sketchbook features the contrast between the unlikely pair of a hummingbird and a lion. It got me thinking that I really ought to compose a piece with an unperturbed hummingbird facing a roaring lion.
It was somewhat unconscious, but I thought it interesting that I chose to draw the hummingbird so much larger than the lion and that the lion is in such a passive posture. For some reason, I had a vision of the hum of the hummingbird’s wings calming an otherwise ferocious lion.