But, as it is often the case with Banksy, there are different readings to this strong visual. Indeed, the liberation of the leopard is also pointing towards a far more subtle and conceptual imprisonment. If one considers the barcode as symbol of capitalism and consumerism, Banksy could also emphasize the excess of consumerism and how they become our own entrapment. The Leopard is a brilliant metaphor for nature, freedom and the vitality of life, while the barcode-become-cage represents the impersonal, inhuman and quantitative nature of mass consumerism and modernity in general as a force obsessed with integrating the natural and thus the human into a linear and indexed system.