birds and zapatistas and artwork! oh my!

I spent Sunday drawing and watching the Broncos suck it yet again. The pictures below are the result. I'm still figuring out what exactly I was trying to convey with these - I've been thumbing through this old issue of Proceso that we brought back from Mexico on the Zapatistas, wanting to use the pictures in a project. So I cut up some cardboard, cut up some pictures, "highlighted" them with white-out, and then coated them in really diluted acrylic to tint them. And then I drew birds on them. Don't ask me what it means yet. It's just what needed to be done. The birds are, respectively, a cassowary, a purple swamphen, a marabou, and a grey heron.