The first thing about this picture, is that the cockroaches are portrayed as humans. They are clearly a family and their appearance is less repulsive than usual. While the intent of the author might have been on meaning, I think it goes along with our book Cockroach because the book itself goes into great detail about cockroach and shows them in a different light than we are used to seeing. We are all used to seeing cockroaches as repulsive disgusting creatures that are a symbol of filth. But this painting characterizes them as a wholesome family. This photo and its accompanying pose is one that many families have probably done in their portraits. Thus, I think this painting would be good to display because it teaches us all that things are not always what they seem, and perhaps there's a little bit of good in everything.
Your are absolutely correct, I think personally that would be a great addition to the museum as well. As you pointed out, it does go along well with our book. We have always seemed to consider cockroaches to be a species we can just step on and has very little purpose other than to cause us a neusance. This painting reminds us, just like some of the poetry, fiction, and diary entries in Cockroaches that they are creatures that might just be more like humans than we know! This painting would most definitely be food for thought. Thanks for finding it.
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