This depiction of a singing wren is the second painting I created using the “mosaic” technique; the image drips with symbolism. The buds on the branch are tightly closed, and the cool, solemn colors below the bird indicate middling winter.

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The yearning wren pours out a song of the coming spring, warm notes flowing forth, with the lower tones gushing like gurgling liquid down his breast while the higher notes and trills become continuously more stained-glass-like as your eye moves up the page, intended to describe the “towering cathedral (hence stained glass) of Bach” that a priest performs on an organ in Ray Bradbury’s book, The Martian Chronicles.

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Images of hopeful spring bloom around the fervid wren on his branch. A golden crown and a fleur-de-lis blooming innocuously nearby indicate a sort of royalty. A migrating trout slips unnoticed out of the frame with the flow of winter.