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Jungle Jail.









                                                                                                                                                                                              Are we                                        No, we live in prison, like any living thing. We are prisoners of our instincts, rules, social
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            conventions, and our most hidden fears. We are prisoners of a thing called society,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            but perhaps without it, we would all be in more trouble.

                                                                                                                                                                                              all free                                      After all, isn’t this a nice cage? We have gadgets, money, food, whatever we want. A beautiful

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            cage, but still a cage.
                                                                                                                                                                                              human                                         But do we really want to escape? Going to a jungle? Without rules? With wild animals? Or

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            do we want to create cages there too?
                                                                                                                                                                                              beings?                                       Can we trust us to open the cages and see what happens?



                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Can we trust people?


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Or is it better to keep keeping our cages closed?


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            I don’t know, I travel in the jungle, my cage is huge, it is the world, and the only thing that
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            can escape is my mind.








                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Acrylic on Canvas
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 i: 16’ by 20’
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