Thomas Rude : Flight of the awakened one

On the advice of a co-worker, I headed down to Art in the Pearl this weekend to meet some local artists and look at some art; I'm glad I did. Here is an artist named Thomas Rude  that I met holding a hand painted linocut  titled "Flight of the awakened one".  I hadn't heard of that technique prior to a conversation with my co-worker Dan. 

The print depicts a bird taking flight. Thomas said it had to do with "awakening to the world around you".  I think the bird is a Garuda abstraction found in eastern religions.