For the cover of the issue “Tabù, gioco di società” (“Taboo, a Social Game”), I developed an illustration inspired by one of the most iconic narratives in Western culture: the story of Adam and Eve and the forbidden fruit.

Rather than depicting temptation itself, the concept overturns the original myth. Adam and Eve are no longer reaching toward the fruit — they have become part of it. Curled up inside its flesh, they embody a humanity that inhabits its own limits, feeds them, and ultimately remains trapped within them.

The artwork was designed to visually translate the issue’s philosophical themes into a symbolic and immediate image, balancing sacred iconography, contemporary editorial illustration, and psychological metaphor. Through composition and visual storytelling, the illustration reflects on taboos as self-imposed structures: invisible cages built by the very same hands that long to dismantle them.