kinglet smudge

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No this is not modern art. No Motherwell. No Frankenthaler. No Rothko. No Kline. No de Kooning. Or any of the so called gestural abstractionists splashing paint across the canvas. Capturing the artist's energy in one quick smear of color. Splasssssssshhhhhh.

Label it if you will: The one that got away, an almost photo of a golden-crowned kinglet. The smudge in the lower left is the kinglet exiting my hurriedly framed composition, in motion.

But aren't they always in motion? Fleeting blurs of vitality. A metaphor for life itself.

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