Raven was created as a matching drawing for Robert’s Howling Wolf. What they have in common is the energy field that surrounds the animal. The bird’s energy field has the effect of ripples in the water or concentric rings, except that the rings mirror the contour of the animal’s body, like a series of Russian dolls inside an undulating egg.

In North American native mythology, Raven often appears as a trickster figure. In his book, Trickster Makes the World, Lewis Hyde sums up the meaning of trickster figures, found in myths the world over: “Trickster is a boundary-crosser. Every group has its edge, its sense of in and out, and trickster is always there, at the gates of the city and the gates of life, making sure there is commerce … Where someone’s sense of honourable behaviour has left him unable to act, trickster will appear to suggest an amoral action that will get life going again.” Tricksters are mischievous and disorderly, but, Hyde insists, “in spite of all their disruptive behaviour, tricksters are regularly honoured as the creators of culture.” They are rule-breaking, life-giving disrupters. In Robert’s design, Raven is linked to a field of energy whose shape is elusive but expanding.