| This is the second chapter in The Tiger’s
Tale, a six-part visual myth within The History of Rock & Roll. The series tells the story of a tiger (Europe) who steals a dragon (Africa) and buries it in a new world—only to be undone by the dragon’s buried song, which empowers the people to rise.
In this piece, the halftone mouth appears as a stylized bat-like silhouette hovering at the top—a spectral voice, fragmented and amplified. Below it, red industrial schematics suggest the machinery of suppression: pipes, systems, control. The tiger’s theft has become infrastructure.
At the base, a mandala-like floral pattern glows in yellow and red—symbol of spiritual resilience, buried beauty, and ancestral rhythm. The background pulses with vertical green lines and warm gradients, like sonic interference or rising energy.
The Tiger’s Tale was meant to be paired with a companion series,
The Dragon’s Tale, which remains unrealized. Together, they would have told both sides of the myth: the theft and the resistance.
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