Feasting crow, feasted crow

2017 Acrylic gouache on silver leaf Six-panel folding screen H175.5×W370.5cm Artist's collection Crows are historically known to be omnivorous and would even eat corpse on riverbeds. Thus they are considered to be ominous. Domestic live stocks like chickens are eaten and threatened by crows. However, they are sometimes eaten by cats. All living beings eat and are eaten in nature. This is the law of nature so death is also a part of it. The single bird struggling to stay alive in the enter of the picture represents life. The entire bottom part represents he crows in underworld. This piece depicts the border between life and death.