Mercury

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A drawing in colored pencil and ink on paper of a female figure wearing a headdress, surrounded by birds, the sun, a large moth or butterfly, and other natural motifs. The drawing is vertically symmetrical with the left side serving as a mirror image of the right side. The upper center of the drawing is a female face with large, elongated eyes. She wears a large headdress with stylized horns rising from the outside corners of her eyes to the top of the page. In the upper left and upper right quadrants are several depictions of stylized wings of varying shapes and colors, including and additional pair of eyes within the wings. Below the face is a depiction of a rising (or setting) sun on the horizon over water. At the center of the drawing, at the female figure's left and right shoulders, are two (2) identical birds.

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