Gallery Collection 104 - ‘Different Routes’

Gallery Collection 103 ‘Different Routes’ highlights three separate clusters of black birds scatter across a textured white field. Two groups rise in the upper corners, while a smaller arc drifts below. Each bird is rough, gestural, none match perfectly, yet together they form clear movement. Through a neurodiversity lens, this reads as variation without hierarchy. Some brains loop, some dart, some need a wider berth. The space between flocks is not emptiness. It is processing time, sensory recovery, or simply a different route to the same sky. No single cluster dictates the direction for the others.

The thick, horizontal brushstrokes in the background add a subtle current. They run one way while the birds move in many, echoing how neurodivergent people often navigate systems designed for linear thought. The smallest birds at the bottom are not lost. They are choosing a quieter path. This piece rejects the idea that cohesion requires uniformity. It shows that community can hold multiple flight patterns at once, and that the sky has room for those who take off later, fly solo, or never join the main flock at all.