Took a break from my current project to paint something besides monsters doing alphabet yoga.
The painting's based on one of Aesop's fables. In the story, the fox flatters a vain crow into singing for him. The crow opens his beak to sing, thus dropping a piece of cheese which the fox quickly steals away.
My favorite version comes from the band mewithoutYou, which is based on Bawa Muhaiyaddeen's interpretation of the fable in My Love You My Children. It culminates in a very different moral played out in bizarre lyrical brilliance:
We'll rest upon the Knee
Where all divisions cease to be
And rootbeer float in our banana boat
Across the tapioca sea
When letting all attachments go
Is the only prayer we know
May it be so
May it be so
May it be so
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