This work was conceived with the desire to encourage prevention from sexually transmitted disease. One of the achievements of our time compared to years past, is the greater freedom and knowledge of sexual practice, but while there has been a broader open-mindedness and greater ease in moving away from oppressive cultural legacies toward self-expression; massive sexual diseducation still exists today. This nefarious diseducation willfully ignores in its way of acting the consequences of adventures, risky casual sexual relations. This large proportion of individuals whose unawareness leads them not to protect themselves, to believe that they are somehow immune ( out of ignorance or pride) in the face of sexually transmitted diseases, makes me think of the danger we face whenever reason is subdued by impulses, animal instincts.
In this work there is depicted a tiger, indeed the shadow of a tiger worn down by disease. A great predator, cunning, charming, hardy, can become sick to the point of total wasting away from a sexually transmitted disease, and even as can happen to people it can take some time before they realize they have contracted it and accuse the damage and even be an unwitting spreader of it.
In this work the tiger is already in an advanced stage of illness, the effects of the malaise are visible, the discomfort is evident, and to make it so it is emphasized not only by the forms of the subject, but also by the materials and colors used. The Indian jute net becomes a kind of lattice in which the profile of a disappearing tiger is harnessed as if it were a wide-meshed trap. The colors used, on the other hand, are exaggerated, blood red on neon pink, the pink chosen to evoke a sense of affection but also of sexual contemporaneity ( see its wide use in lgbtqi+ emancipation movements) while the darker red to evoke a sense of pain, drama, deep infection.
