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This painting reads like a body-as-world where everything transforms into everything else - the same thick outline runs continuously from the yellow dancing figure into a bird's neck, into a chain of shells, into a house, as if all forms share one substance, the way they do in dreams or oral cosmologies.
The scales at dead center feel like the fulcrum of the piece, marking a turn from the candy-bright, playful imagery around it (fish, snails, a flower-roofed cottage, a mermaid) toward a darker, more architectural register on the lower right - a black cavity opening onto a golden domed palace, a figure held inside a ribcage-like interior, a bloodstained staircase, a bare cactus, as though the painting traces an arc from innocence toward power, confinement, or mortality.
The big pink bird-head on the right, its open mouth revealing the palace scene inside, reinforces that sense of one continuous body containing multitudes.
