THE SAD TIMES: This painting, acrylic on canvas 36x36inches, 90x90cm, is titled"Mother and Child". It is a very personal work for me. The bonding between a mother and a child
should be so strong that both heads should be the same. You only feel this when
you did not have the opportunity of such a bonding.
I painted the two original versions (Acrylic on A3 paper) in 1975. The original
is (?) in my ex-wife's place and it was already deteriorated when I left the
place some years ago. In 1975 I glued it with a sticky rubber thing to a board
and in time the glue started coming through the paper. I offered the second
original to a late friend called Pepita Medeiros and I do not know whether the
work still exist.
The painting was all the time a central piece in my living room. The experience
was that nine people out of ten would "see" something else, precisely what they
wanted to see (as many men as women). SO what do you see?
