Pepa Swims to the Black Sea

The painting Pepa Swims to the Black Sea tells an incredible but true anecdote from the socialist era. My friend Pepa, instead of heading home from work, stopped at the pub. When he finally stumbled out, quite drunk, he tripped and fell into a deep puddle. In his mind, however, the puddle transformed into an ocean, and he began to swim with all his might. When local women gathered around him, asking in bewilderment where on earth he was swimming to, Pepa replied with absolute seriousness: "To the Black Sea."
I assembled this absurd scene using the tangram principle. Pepa struggles with the "waves" in his dark puddle, while the colorful, patterned figures of the women above him form a bizarre audience. It is a celebration of human imagination (even the alcohol-induced kind) that can create an infinite horizon out of ordinary mud.