The Three Graces reflect real stories in my life. I can only paint if I am deeply involved with the persons I depict. No judgements here, only the traits that I know that affected my life in one way or another. I had to face years of 'catching up' with all those spirits of someone being victim or the other "Ahaaa..." side. Soon or later reality sinks in and the real face of each one surges tired. Both become the same. However, souls that look up to the Sky have already a defender in Oscar Wilde. They are forever.

WHAT'S IN THE EXHIBITION 'CLIMATE OF CHANGE' ?


The Three Graces above and an installation you can see on the left






The pamphlet for NEGATIVE CLIMATE





A poor rich disgraced forgotten country from the South, ANGOLA, celebrated in 1975 a 'Creativity and Invention' week and a couple of years after a 'Climate Change and Environment' week.

Both events were optimist shouts at a time when thousands of people were dying because of a civil war fed by a peripheral conflict between the big powers, during the so called COLD WAR, a stand off war that never took place in the NORTHERN countries but killed millions in other countries.

The change of pattern in the weather was first recognised in the south of Angola in the sixties. Rain stopped being regular. The March river flood patterns were changing year after year. I still miss my daily 15 minute rain at 15.00 o'clock, regular as a Switzerland watch.

An old friend tried to proselyte me some years ago. She tried to convince me that the end of the world was nigh, all to be blamed on men, or humans, as I corrected then. I reacted to the fact that if I was being injected every night with her version of the Bible, I had the same right to argue back. I did it not with words but with a series of paintings.

The creation of the series 'Scorched Earth', from which "The Flight Of The Three Graces Saving The Last Green On Earth" is part of, came to the fore.

Standing up against public brains also created 'Filipe The Messenger'.

Can you help me not to save the world by being my 'Tina The Cleaner'?

I believe the WORLD of people and, much later, the Earth, is going to disappear because of natural causes, Humans clearly being part of those natural causes, as comets are, after all.

Humans are nature, only that! Humans will not destroy nature; they will only destroy themselves, giving space to others species, which will worry little about the end.

I quote and translate 'Vinício de Morais', a Brazilian poet.

'Do not kill the cockroach, its beauty it's innate"

Such is nature!




The pamphlet for POSITIVE CLIMATE




Hi, Mary Ann,


How is our forest today?
The wind through the leaves
A moment of silence
A shuffle somewhere
A scuffle nearby
No! We relax . . .
Perhaps a bird, splashing the wings in a pothole
Sometimes stopping all movements
Or caught up in a tic, head up, then
Head leaning to the right, to the left
Ridiculous in only one eye stare
As a bird can be
Relaxed again, we have . . .
Only another second, less or more . . .
And in the air
Against the bright side of some clouds
Thousands of starlings fluxing, correcting the alphabet
Time over time, again and again, without possible count
Going back and forward, opening and closing the dictionary
In constant brushed circles
Unsuccessful each time
Unsatisfied with the calligraphy . . .

Thank God! Wonderful! For our delight!