| This is the final 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.
Here, the tiger finally appears—stylized in golden and brown hues, coiled among swirling patterns that evoke both flame and foliage. The background is a red field overlaid with chain link fence—a symbol of containment, control, and colonial architecture. The tiger is not triumphant; it is trapped.
Above the fence hovers the halftone mouth—final voice of the tale teller, fragmented and defiant. The dragon’s song has risen from the soil, passed through the people, and now confronts the tiger directly. This is the moment of reckoning.
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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