The Tiger The Snake (The Tiger and the Snake)

This vividly patterned scene stages a fable-like encounter where the tiger’s muscular presence is softened into a guardian spirit, its body interlaced with leaves and bright, ceremonial color as if nature itself were wearing a costume. Bold partitions of red, blue, and nocturnal black fracture the space into overlapping realms—playground, forest, and dream—so that figures float like memories stitched together by rhythm rather than perspective. The suspended child and scattered dancers evoke innocence held on a precarious thread, while the calm, intimate gesture at the lower right suggests trust as an act of courage amid the wild. In its joyful dissonance, the work reads as a myth of coexistence: fear domesticated not by force, but by tenderness and imagination.