Frigthened little bird

“The playful little girl is dead. Where she was playing, now a frightened little bird is sitting.”

This I wrote in one of my notebooks about healing a traumatic past. I knitted this bird, after I found out about the project Yil Birds of Mathilde Jongbloed, knitting a bird with a story. My bird became a fearful and miserable little creature, with not much color. She is not able to fly and can not stand straight up. Her eyes are dull and she is sitting in a bit a strange position. This is exactly how I intended her to be. It shows how I felt a long time ago, when the world did not feel safe for me.