rise + fall of hopes +dreams

this is quite a symbolic piece, the chains symbolizing the barriers we put up in our minds and the birds hopes and dreams, some which die or are brushed away and forgotten, some that we hold onto and follow.

the girl is a sorceress born into a country where magic users are feared. She is kept in a tower where her magic decays and festers and has no contact with any other living creatures until a little bird accidentally flies in through a hole in the stonework.

edit: fixed dodgey hand on left

reference used for birds from , and