This painting is part of my ongoing “murmuration” series. Murmuration refers to the synchronized acrobatic ballet in the sky - performed by a flock of birds (often starlings) as a defense mechanism to ward off encroaching prey. The swooping movements are not led not by one bird, but by a group of seven and travels through the flock like a game of telephone. The title and imagery reference birds traveling at night in a sky absent of the moonlight but not lost