THE RETURN OF JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL

This is how the painting of a seagull on a pillar of a bridge was announced in a newspaper headline: “Seagull as a symbol of disobedience”.
Inspired by Richard Bach’s novel, I wanted to paint a bird with its wings spread wide, which shows its free spirit and defies the force. His flight is out of time that wants to identify him with something he does not like because it puts pressure on his river and takes away its soul. That’s why his screach cannot be heard. The noise of machines is heard instead and walls are being built where his empire was once larger than his horizon. He is a city seagull, born to be proud and true to himself.
His feelings are clear and they lift him to fly. The flight is a joy of his life unlike the safety of a cage he could have. Every day, the joy is growing and he is getting farther, his feathers no longer white, because his city has also turned grey. He will not fly any more to that prisonlike side of the river, which goads the sky and threatens him. It’s freedom or death. You live only once, and the flight is eternal. Let it remain so as long as there are memories of the seagull that has given away its flight to a pillar of a bridge. He could not give away the shores of his life, but he did want to.
 “Jonathan Livingston Seagull loved TO FLY!” will be engraved in the memory of the bridge of the lost river…Yea, it will thus continue to run till the end of time while the sky is getting written on by the flight.
“If our friendship depended on things like space and time, then, when we finally overcome space and time, we’d destroy our own brotherhood! Should we overcom space, all we have left is HERE. Should we overcome time, all we have left is NOW. Don’t you think our paths might cross from time to time somewhere between Here and Now?”
“Goodbye, Sully. We’ll meet again” said Jonathan joining in his mind a large gull-flock on the shores of another time realising with well-practiced ease that he was not just feathers and bones but a perfect symbol of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all.