(Out of) sanitary cage

May 2020. I completed with this painting the visual diary of the first lockdown: the restrictions are loosened and freedom approaches, while still remaining out of our reach. Anger towards the house, that in the previous months oscillated between being a cage and a refuge, is transformed into a new and ambivalent feeling. In this artwork I wanted to represent the last moments of domestic confinement, when what was possible before the lockdown could become again a potential future for all those who were still locked up. In the painting, colored and peeling but no longer threatening walls constitute the cage in which a swimmer imagines the crystalline surface of a swimming pool, as in a daydream. In the realization of the architectural elements I used large free brush strokes, acting almost automatically, and often letting the underlying layer of acrylic color shine through, as if it were really a wall whose peeling plaster sometimes reveals the older layers in a time travel.