Blackbird Spirit

This is an art peice I did for the Hmong Art Festival in August 2005. It's suppose to be a pheonix black bird symbolizing the Hmong people in the jungles of Laos. The Hmong are like pheonix birds, we have survived many hundreds of years of persecution. Even when the Chinese thought they had wiped us off the face of this planet, we have always come back. We are survivalists.

Acrylic on Muslin cloth
Aprox. 8.5 x 12