Bird Autism
These images were made from March to May 2025, when I was still using a batch generator tool, in the days before I switched to Chat GPT (making one image at a time) and before I had found my "voice" with my Elysian Enchanted Realism style and was still doing more painterly (and sometimes surrealistic) art.
The story behind this series is that when I was a teenager, I stopped a group of boys from aiming at pigeons with slingshots, and in my thirties when I lived in Seattle a bunch of crows began following me around, and I've had various bird omens throughout my life including (but not limited to)
Also, when I was a kid I was really into reading about birds, and for my twenties and early thirties I was a member of the Audobon Society and regularly went on bird-watching hikes.
So birds have always been one of my hyperfixations and something of spiritual significance to me, and after the bluejay arrival in March 2025 I made some of these to celebrate, then did a bunch more as a form of self-soothing and it was also my first major dive into the adoptables market on DeviantArt, which didn't go so well for various reasons. I named this series "Little Songs" on DA.
While I've moved on from this style, this is very close to the paintings I used to do by hand back before Ehlers-Danlos took my ability to paint away, and I'm proud to show a little piece of my inner world to you.
Click the thumbnails to see the full-sized images!
There are 435 images in this gallery so the page may take a few moments to load fully.
Also, some of the other bird art in this style from the same time period can be found in other galleries of mine.
The story behind this series is that when I was a teenager, I stopped a group of boys from aiming at pigeons with slingshots, and in my thirties when I lived in Seattle a bunch of crows began following me around, and I've had various bird omens throughout my life including (but not limited to)
- the raven that flew into Long Beach Airport while I was waiting to board a flight to leave my ex,
- the hawk family that moved into my backyard the week before my cat Ham passed on and left a week after his death,
- and the bluejay pair that moved into my backyard the day after I proposed to Andy in March (yes, that soon).
Also, when I was a kid I was really into reading about birds, and for my twenties and early thirties I was a member of the Audobon Society and regularly went on bird-watching hikes.
So birds have always been one of my hyperfixations and something of spiritual significance to me, and after the bluejay arrival in March 2025 I made some of these to celebrate, then did a bunch more as a form of self-soothing and it was also my first major dive into the adoptables market on DeviantArt, which didn't go so well for various reasons. I named this series "Little Songs" on DA.
While I've moved on from this style, this is very close to the paintings I used to do by hand back before Ehlers-Danlos took my ability to paint away, and I'm proud to show a little piece of my inner world to you.
Click the thumbnails to see the full-sized images!
There are 435 images in this gallery so the page may take a few moments to load fully.
Also, some of the other bird art in this style from the same time period can be found in other galleries of mine.
