By Daniel Ortega Beltrán
Acrylic on Canvas
37.5in by 23.5in
"From the wild… into captivity,
accustomed to living inside a cage… repeating all the songs,
every morning until the sun goes down.
Like the Cuban, without freedom but singing happily through his sorrows.
One day he may escape the cage, where he lost his youth…
Maybe he will return…
Maybe he misses the birdseed…
Maybe he will die because he forgot what the wild was like.
Maybe he will fly as far as he can… to the north.
Like the Cuban…
the one who flew away… singing like the mockingbird.
Preparing a new series inspired by my hometown. When it is ready, it will travel to the northern steel city of pirates, hand in hand with Del Caimán. Times of creation are coming, and new events."
