Homonyms
I’m looking at the chimpanzee,
the chimpanzee is not
looking back at me
I’m looking at the chimpanzee,
Who looks
So much like me.
The chimpanzee holding a branch
The chimpanzee perched on a tree
What must it be holding on to?
What must it be thinking of?
So similar to
Yet so unlike me.
We share so much
Yet it is only I that suffers
Living my life in a series of miseries.
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These paintings are a representation of the homonymous life led by humans and chimpanzees. They are two beings that have the same origin and are so much alike in their genetic makeup but, have very different courses of life.

Title: Homonyms, 2023
Medium : Oil on paper pasted on board
Size:19.5 cm x 30.5 cm (each)