Sharks also Dance
I feel that a statement quietly makes its way into Sharks also Dance: fear isn´t an absolute and definitive truth.
Starting with a chill, anything can end in belonging and care. From the initial unrest of looking at the night sky and seeing the northern lights for the first time, to a heart filled with wonder and awe, in the time it takes to eat a Snickers chocolate bar.
The unfamiliar and unsettling can become an executive first-class seat with a V12 engine ready to push us into our wildest adventures.
A child goes through this in the blink of an eye, adjusting and reinterpreting reality according to the whims of imagination, often from the back of an elephant.
Painting of a sky with clouds, featuring flying sharks and a large airship shaped like a seashell.
A drawing of a person wearing a goggle helmet, with brown skin, and a gray shirt, holding the helmet with their right hand, with handwritten text in the background in a different language. The person's face is looking up.
A painting of a young person with white hair, blue shirt, and shorts jumping with arms outstretched among flying birds, with elephants in the background and a sunset sky.
Painting of a herd of sharks swimming in the desert, with some dolphins, a blimp, and a rocket ship in the background.
A drawing of a herd of elephants walking through grass at sunset, with a pink and orange sky and some clouds in the background.
A person in a blue shirt and shorts wearing a helmet and sneakers is jumping in the air while holding a bow and arrow, aiming at a blimp in the sky, in a desert landscape with small trees and grazing elephants nearby.
Sketch of a zoo scene featuring three elephants walking on the ground and three sharks swimming in the air above them.
Drawing of two children, one holding a flower, walking toward a tank in the distance.