Title: Kookaburra

Series: Rōstrum: Echoes of Avian Life

Valuation: $6,500

Medium: Oil, Brewed Coffee, and High-Gloss Resin on Vernacular Reclaimed Canvas

Size: 30” x 40” | 80 × 105 cm

Kookaburra is a central work in the Rōstrum Reframed series, an inquiry into survival, displacement, and human dignity. Using the language of personification, the work draws symbolic parallels between the transient lifestyle of birds and the precarious nature of chronic street homelessness in the urban core.

The piece is constructed through a process of 'building and dissolving' layers, utilizing oil, charcoal, and natural stains like coffee to mirror the cycles of endurance that define life on the margins.

-Daniel Montoute

A percentage of the acquisition from this series supports ongoing civic restoration and housing initiatives within the Kansas City urban core.