Watching over

A red fox crouches low in a hedge at left, watching a small bird perched among rocks in a clearing below; a second bird stands further off atop a rock outcrop, and a third pale bird rests near the fox's paws. Rolling hills and misty pine trees fill the background under a pale blue-gray sky, with a small building on the ridge at right, rendered in a muted palette of greens, rust-orange, and gray. "Watching over," a 2023 mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock) print by Andy Farkas.