Damião Porto
2008
160 x 120 cm
This work describes the current society, disciplinary (“Circus”), where puppets are the domain of established power, which manipulate us politically according to their conveniences. The courage to show what we really are is not always something spontaneous, it is difficult to camouflage the real desires for long and this causes some situations present themselves as the checkmate chess and you need to stop acting on stage and divest himself of all characterizations of the character. Characters who enjoy lean consideration in the scale of social values but, instead, have something to counter this state of fact: his art, a metaphor of society, emotion and imagination. The famous puppet “Howdy Doody” gives way to a dramatic face of this society