In her reinterpretation of Winslow Homer's Right and Left, Robyn O’Neil transforms the scene from one of violent immediacy into a meditation on nature, absence, and instinct. Homer’s original brims with tension; the hunter, the flash of the gun, feathers frozen midair. O’Neil’s version shifts focus entirely.

Rendered in stark monochrome, her two birds dive in near-perfect symmetry, seemingly guided by an unseen force. Without the hunter, the narrative moves from imminent death to quiet ambiguity. The birds are no longer prey, but purposeful agents in a moment suspended in time.

By erasing the human presence, O’Neil reframes the scene. Where Homer reflects on mortality, O’Neil offers a different kind of elegy that restores autonomy to the animals once cast as targets.