Freedom

The old man stands at full height with both palms raised beside his face, two white doves lifting from them and a third settled at his shoulder. A grey jacket hangs open over a rose shirt, the trousers torn through at both knees, open sandals on his feet. Beard and hair are worked in short strokes, his eyes following the birds upward. The base narrows to a strip of ground and leaves, so the whole figure reads as one rising line.