THE OVARY (Acrylic on canvas 40x40cm)

This work became a birthday gift for a very close friend. She knew how it was created. Itried my best but the roughness of the canvas did not allow me to paint her face as intended.

During a week with flu with rare moments of lucidity I used a small canvas to test some techniques. When I decided to give it a final form 'The Ovary' came to fore.

It states the woman as the guardian of her own eggs.

Whatever she does in life, having a carrier, far from the Earth with none, one or two children, or having to survive, near the Earth, with as many as she can give born, many to compensate the ones that will die during her lifetime, 'The Ovary' or the ovaries are the containers of human life.

Kaleidoscope Destiny is one of the works, for theDestiny Building SiteThere also is an installation called 'Destiny'

that is based on the portrait of

The composition plays with the effects of seeing the same painting as an image rotating from an old kaleidoscopic, an old children's first magic wonder!

In progress...

Click the small image to see how the 'The Gates of Living Hell' (not Dante's Portes d'Enfer) took its present form... so far

Jutta's portrait, titled "Hope and Freedom", is a painting in acrylic on canvas 36"x36" or around 90cmx90cm and it is an example of the muse-exaltation behind the scene.

Passion brings inspiration and this reflects in the proportions of the figure, more a distinction of her personality than a try to be exact. The face was painted while the paint was wet and with a minimum effort. The eyes and the movement of the mouth, the shadows were done very fast without layers, so it is very difficult to reproduce it or imitate it. Jutta's assurance in the style of her blue face was achieved when this my friend showed the portrait to her two sons without saying who was the person portrayed. Both asked her, "Mum, who painted you?"

Her courage and passion for a new life are also reflected in many of the poems (Still an e-book for now), including "My Muse Died This Morning", emotionally a rite of passage, and the origin of the title "My Muse Died Today".

"The Times Art Capsule" (more photos about ...)is an installation which has this painting in acrylic on canvas 36x36 inches or around 90x90cm as the main component.

The title "On the 20-10-2005 I read the newspaper and the supplements… my way" reflects the general idea. It was to be an exercise on painting and colours but, as soon as I started getting a wall of silence around me (when I wrote to the Syndicate of the corporation about copyrights), I transformed it into a personal fight. It became a Time Capsule involving the present era, when many people are/were obsessed with mementos, celebrity, and populism, prizes and titles for the wrong/right age and time, etc.

I wasted a long time asking for the rights to copy the faces in the newspaper. Hopefully, publishing this photo will not make them vocal.