Homeless Jonah about to be devoured by a great 100€-plated fish

But will an ecclesiastical trawler turn it into cat food first?

Trevor @ Friday April 17th 2009 17:37

Mural at the foot of the Carmelite church on Monte Carmelo, Barcelona.

I think if I had been Jonas on that boat with those sailors in that storm, I might have preferred to take my chances with the whale, whatever nuances hindsight might have brought. But that is not the message this presumably Christian-socialist artist wishes to convey.

Children from the same mural. Optical illusion, not capitalism, causes the one in the zebra jersey on the left to appear impaled on a hook.

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  1. Trevor
    April 18th 2009 23:51

    Here’s the mouth, red in tooth at least.

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