The usual advice to be cautious of strangers (and by extension anything unfamiliar or unknown) is turned on its head in

The artwork implies the need to embrace risk if life is to be fully experienced. In the accompanying pictogram, the stranger’s head is shown as a bomb with a burning fuse.

This image, as a counterpoint to the text, portrays the potential for danger represented by the stranger. The whole adventure might blow up in one’s face but the artwork prompts the question: without fully experiencing life and its attendant risks, how is happiness possible at all?