Diary of Dreams: Budgerigars leaving Its Feet

A golden-yellow budgerigar, rendered with gilded highlights, takes flight in the upper left against a pale sky dotted with soft grey clouds; a trail of teardrop-shaped golden droplets arcs downward from the bird toward a graphite-rendered human hand entering from the lower right, its outstretched index finger wound with thread or wire. The palette contrasts the bird's warm gold leaf against the cool grey-blue wash of the sky and the monochrome pencil hand, with the scattered droplets forming a visual bridge between the two. *Diary of Dreams: Budgerigars leaving Its Feet*, Chihiro Taki, 2022, pencil, colored pencil, watercolor gouache, gold leaf, and paper on panel.