Visual metaphor helps, so it is constructive.
Contemplating the totality of the universe in a single picture (life is a journey is an image is an aphorism) develops abstract mental activities. Good art generates new views of the world that are counterintuitive, for example that surface textures are more like imagination than reality.
The real world is a cruel place for mermaids because there is no place online for hybrid art. Foxes also have a metaphorical meaning.
What is a visual metaphor in art?
Run-and-tumble butterflies and frog escape art business birds of prey.
Art final goals are stretching the truth toward misrepresentations of how to live with cruel people. Sloth is not for people but for cute animals living in tall trees.
The wisest picture has something yet to learn. Odd pictures are as gregarious as termites.
Zeuxis selecting models for Helen of Troy
Drawings also become visual metaphors when an artwork is used to represent something like an idea that is not visible.
Mermaid motif,half-human half-animal hybrid, represents aspiration to pursue the highest metaphorical expressions.
Art is the only mean for human beings to live forever.