Looks like the birds are making their escape from this explosion . . . hope they find peace :-)

Hi Simon
I cannot always read Your work even if u supply a description. However I know that this is a slight departure from Your regular transitions / journey chalks.
Q: When I first looked at this guess what I saw ?
A: A ship in a bottle on the ocean bed !! can u c it owld buddy.
Phil

looks to me like a speed boat crashing down into the water. i guess the crash is the deceitfulness of the words.

an enigmatic title and description... what I see is a magic hovercraft taking flight from the water, scattering birds and alphabet soup everywhere... letters form words and words can indeed be deceitful.
mary

Containment afloat/adrift.......edgy within the bottle (Pill),angst and anger apparent in hard lines and colouring. Speaks to me of isolation and perhaps drugged state...perhaps escape through sleep? (ZZZZZZZ)I do not know if you are aware (likely you are) that often a reference is made to escape/altered state/a wish for a better circumstance?through use of radically different colouring -sometimes in sky, as it is here. I think this is one of your more "struggling" works; that is inner turmoil and pain. I salute you, mon good friend.

Ah, but I love language! Now you're criticizing my world as a literature teacher. ;) As Emily D. wrote, "Tell all the truth, but tell it slant." Isn't that what you do, too? I agree, there is the other side; the fool in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night also says, "words are grown so false I am loathe to prove reason with them." Maybe that's what I love about words... their versatility. Great, provocative image, Simon.

Very creative.....

so true..wonderful drawing..