Frozen Sea Picture

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I chose this painting illustrated by Shaun Tan because it clearly shows the thoughts I have on Kafka’s statement. The picture inside the frame represents reality- dull, the same, lifeless. The long path represents the journey of reading a magnificent book- it leads to a world of imagination, a place with no boundaries. The scrolls in front of our ‘reality’ are the keys to the realm of imagination-our ice axes, our books that guide us to the world outside the frame. This world shows the outside of our prison, our frozen sea, the world of ideas and imagination. The world of imagination is filled with impossible creatures, colors, differences, life- which is all shown in this painting.