Italy, May 2020. The painting is realized in the last part of the first Covid lockdown: the restrictions are loosened and freedom approaches, while still remaining out of our reach. Anger towards the house, that in the previous months oscillated between being a cage and a refuge, is transformed into a new and ambivalent feeling. In this artwork I wanted to represent the last moments of domestic confinement, when what was possible before the lockdown could become again a potential future for all those who were still locked up. In the painting, colored and peeling but no longer threatening walls constitute the cage in which a swimmer imagines the crystalline surface of a swimming pool, as in a daydream. Final varnish, signed certificate of authenticity.