I found it an intriguing image when I came across it in Ruzafa, one of the trendiest neighborhoods in Valencia. The boy is dressed in a late 19th-century outfit with a large Native American headdress. It evokes the time when Karl May, a German writer who had never been to America, made “cowboys and Indians” fun for boys to play. I too played with toy guns. That’s no longer acceptable; nowadays, we take down others in video games.
Below it reads, “The Hero’s Journey,” which probably doesn’t refer to the boy, although perhaps for a moment he felt like a hero with his headdress—maybe even Winnetou. Children travel with their imagination to places where adults can no longer go.