To tell the story behind this mural, I need to tell you about Pompei. The city of Pompei in one day in the year 79 A.D. was practically buried, taking the lives of all who were there due to a large rain of ash from the eruption of the Vesuvius volcano. Only in the 13th century were its ruins discovered and most of it intact, from streets, paintings and even bodies showing the position in which many were at the time of death. In addition Pompei was known as a city of intense life, for its brothels and free worship of the human body, and the phalluses, in the ruins it is possible to find traces of murals containing erotic poses that historians believe serve as a “catalog” of the services offered. I wanted to represent a woman who, after finishing a reading, begins to touch herself, subtly the pose of the hand makes this representation, and is taken by pleasure to the point of choosing to stay rather than trying to escape the catastrophe. On top of the character a black bird symbolizing the death that was to come (a curiosity is that the moment post orgasm in French means “little death”), and so I put small details as if the character was slowly disintegrating, about to leave this world.