petajamaja's avatar
I wonder if the author of this work has read "The Elegance of the Hedgehog" by Muriel Barbery?
AquaSixio's avatar
Yes, I read the book =)
Why do you ask about it ? Do you think there is a reference ? 
petajamaja's avatar
No, at least not in your painting, but in the poem. It reminded me of the hokku Paloma wrote in her diary, that was exactly about ambitious young people who eventually end up like goldfish in bowls, not being able to escape the fate of mediocrities, neither to find any sense in their lives... She also dedicated some other passages to this topic, but I read the book in Russian, so I guess I can't cite them right now.