The Song That Didn't Fly

Description

The song that didn't fly Symbolic and emotional work that explores isolation, childhood trauma, and the search for freedom. In the background a specter of memory, in its gaze an emotional hematoma, observes a world to which it does not feel belonging, and its memories travel in the immediacy of the bubbles. The bird-child has wings but no sky, unable to sing or move, observing from afar others who can, like a wink of swagger accentuating its loneliness. The spinning top and the kite as fossil remnants of children's toys that today's child finds alien. The child can only observe, through the bolt, a world that is foreign to him, bound to his own inner weight, and to a suffocating protection, the cloak that once protected him drains into a bottomless pit, there go also his innocence, his dreams of freedom. Looking inward when the outside is blocked. The key, there is the key hanging from the bird's beak but he ignores its usefulness, just as the switch is to the blind, just as intelligence is to the ignorant. This work uses surrealism to narrate social autism and the emotional blockage derived from abandonment. The work invites reflection in that only through the divinity contained in each of us can we have that much-desired freedom. "Thus, if the Son sets you free, you will be truly free." John 8:36 Oscar León May 7, 2026, Caracas