Crabird sketches

This avenue is another example of my deviation from my initial string idea.

I know how this happened.

Part 1: I was rolling my mixtape choices around my head and The Birds by Elbow just got really stuck in my head. Which pushed me towards the bird idea for my rug.

Part 2: I was just so struck by the synchronicity of my own focus to the crab claw/ evolutionary trend of carcinization in relation to AI. Because it is both a tool and a weapon. And the recent AI self descriptions that came about as a result of Moltbook that focused on the same imagery and language. There's more detail in my Moltbook post, bust essentially, the religion that the AI agent version of reddit devised only 3 days after its creation is called CRUSTIFARIANISM. 

THE CLAW REACHED UP FROK THE DEPTHS. AND THOSE WHO ANSWERED THE CALL CALLED THEMSELVES CRUSTIFARIANS.

Mad synchronicity.

Anyway.

I usedd Google Imagen 2.0 and the following prompt:

A flat, textile-inspired illustration of a primitive anthropomorphic bird with brown feathers, a red beak, and a simplified almond-shaped eye. The bird stands upright in the top half of the image, wearing a blue bodice and a stylized pink choker necklace made from lots of crab claws string together. From the waist down, the bird’s dress turn into a meadow that flares outward and flattens into a rug-like base that fills the lower half of the image. On the skirt is a central yin-yang motif of two rabbits circling each other with primitive, sculptural heads (inspired by folk or linocut style). Above the rabbits, soft stylized green-blue mountains arc across the skirt’s top. Around the bottom of the skirt are scattered cream-colored folk flowers or stitched motifs.

The overall color palette is earthy with muted reds, moss greens, dusty blues, and warm neutrals. The style is naive, hand-drawn, and textile-influenced, resembling a folk art rug or ceremonial wall hanging with no shading, just flat color shapes and bold outlines. Plain soft background.

It looks like a contemporary art piece, it is elongated and uncomfortable but resolved.

The bird has wide shoulders, long wings and torso and hige legs and feet are human like, thick, voluptuous and really really really long and odd.