The drawing shows a ship sailing on the open sea and warm waters. The eight passengers of the boat not only share a destiny, but also a state of mental disorder. Said common characteristic is La Locura. They have embarked on a journey to the land of fools. The promised land of the insane. That place where everything happens “in reverse”. They are all hanging in an inverted position and upside down. It represents the one that is crooked, the one that is oriented in the opposite direction, an unequivocal sign of illness.

In addition, the bodies hang next to the posts or masts of the ship, and supported by the feet/hands, from a bar to which they are clinging with apparent normality, and which are similar to those used by nocturnal birds, or primates, which precisely they cultivate an unusual custom to obtain rest or repose.
The madman is associated with misery, or the miserable, symbolized barefoot. The madman was forbidden to enter the church. They were expelled by the church, and at the same time assisted by it, in a similar way to the marginalized, the excluded and the poor, the prostitutes, the condemned, drunkards, atheists, slaves and others of dubious morality.

Each of these eight passengers presents different crazy profiles. All of them very present in Chilean society. Each mast carries a pennant, which contains a moon, to flag the territory of the "lunatics". From left to right I will describe it:

1. The Consumer
to. Allegory of compulsive behavior for the purchase. Acquire for the sake of acquiring, the unbridled spending, the unconsciousness of the residue, the ignorance and unconsciousness of the costs throughout the production chain. New postmodern version of the sins of gluttony, to incontinence, where the head is not in charge but the belly, which yields and concedes to temptations and impulses.
2. The Outsider
to. Allegory of surviving in the greatest of exclusions, identified with a culture of the crime of crime, Life on the margins, on the peripheries, the hell of the lumpen. The illicit in the dark and far from the centers, The licenses of dissolute morality.
3. The Jester
to. Allegory of the one who sees the world “upside down”, it turns everything into a comedy, it takes turns to make a clown out of everything, life becomes a show. No action responds to logic, so everything is unexpected. He expresses himself irrationally and out of all norms. Taking everything as a joke, and thus the heavy and immensely unbearable, becomes light or bearable or tolerable. And the paradox is that mockery targets the wrong values, defends the apology of stupidity and attacks intelligence. In the case of those who undertake satire on Power, they are also the object of persecution.
4. The moneylover
to. Allegory of the addict to money, the sick capitalist who axiologically puts his profitability before any other value, and who turns profit into an end in itself, instead of a means.
5. The Pervert
to. Allegory of the dissipated, the sexual liberated, delivered to vice. Whose conduct is degenerate, is possessed by desire and carnal lust. His instincts are stronger and they drive him. A persistent lust that is not quenched or controlled.
6. The Fake
to. Allegory of He is the one who shows an appearance inconsistent with his authentic identity. The one who lies, to others and to himself. Attempting against the truth, fleeing from all transparency. Friend of God and the devil. In the absolute absence of self-criticism, staunch conformism with the context. Artist of deceptions or mirages.
7. The Hippie
to. Allegory of delirium, search for a parallel world to live in, denying the world and divorced from reality. In that he himself is usually her main enemy. In that creativity, he settles into a naive fantasy, trapped in a dream from which he does not want to wake up or be released. Uncontrolled imagination clouds his objectivity. He doesn't land. This is the Quixote look.
8. The believer
to. Allegory of converts to Christianity, who have taken the bait, who have fallen into the trap, of a religion made to normalize slavery. Believing and trusting an institution that taps into its own growth potential is nonsense. Embracing such a limiting doctrine is foolish. Becoming a victim is disturbing. Accepting a doctrine that evangelizes to cultivate human servitude is a decision that is out of sound judgment.


Madness moves away from Reason (and also from Truth), therefore, in this distancing from light, the boat and its passengers head directly towards an increasingly dark horizon. The country of a thick and infernal darkness.

The insane are the private (inmates), and madness is confined, among the sane, who are the privileged (free). A separate and unmixed coexistence: some in darkness, others in light. Enlightened and blessed privileged (reason), together with those deprived of it, in darkness (madness).


The rational corresponds to the stone (to the solid or consistent), which remains fixed or stable. However, madness is associated with the instinctive, a magma that is liquid and flows in a dynamic metamorphosis.

For this reason, the Middle Ages remember that the insane were sent in a BOAT by sea or by a riverbed, to an uncertain destination, taking them away from the society of the sane.

In Latin, "navis" also refers to the space for the use of the faithful inside a Christian temple. A temple is a transition space, which communicates with another world. And the Catholic Church is known as the "ship" of Saint Peter. This “ship/temple” analogy was very popular in the late Middle Ages to denounce the clergy for multiple excesses. To illustrate this reference, the ship has a reflection in the water with semicircular architectural arches that refer to medieval Romanesque buildings.

The boat is the symbolic prefiguration of the "encierro" or madhouse

the direction of the boat is actually death. Madness precedes death. According to medieval tradition, the madmen do not embark voluntarily, but are brought up and sent together and grouped. This highlights the fact that madmen are not masters of their destiny, and do not steer the transport in which they travel (without crew). In the drawing the ship is disintegrating, and sinks. Therefore, the ship does not save anyone, rather it is shipwrecked. Getting on a ship full of holes is also crazy. Who would get on a ship that lets water in? This inconsistency is a metaphor for human stupidity, it is also a reflection of everything that is foolish.