Borneo
On the painting, deforestation is raging. Man rampages,
burns everything in his path.
He saws happily the branch on which he sits, that of the living.
In a dream, the painter has joined his animal brothers and
she perishes in this hell inflicted on them.
The orangutan, primate ruler of Borneo, holds the artist in
her arms, placing on her a look full of compassion and pity.
We think of a diverted form of the Pieta, where Man is the
Child of the animal kingdom: an immature, inconsequential being, who does not
know what he is doing.
In the sky a witness, a motley angel.
Is it an announcing angel, a divine punishment? From the
apocalypse?
It's hard to know if the greenish mass that stands in the
distance represents the canopy or the ruthless wave of a Tsunami ...
