This black, glossy painting represents my mourning for my late grandmother.
It shows how my experience of death and loss (and its universal experience) can be suffered so deeply by those that feel it.
200 x 200 cms. Oil on unstretched canvas.
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Before my grandmother’s death I was reading the indian epic, The Ramayana, in which the Prince Rama is exiled in the forest with his wife Sita. She is kidnapped by a bad king and Rama creates a kind of world war where human, apes and demons fight against each other.
My grandmother, being Brazilian, represents this land for me, and I felt a part of myself was being stolen when she died, and that I am fighting to have that missing part back with my art.
200 x 200 cms. Oil on unstretched canvas.
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Phalenopsis is the very common Moth Orchid (as sold even in supermarkets), whose very shape has been mistaken (in the form of epiphyte blooms caressed by the wind) for a herd of white butterflies in the dark Philippine’s jungle.
In this painting the Phalenopsis is not only ambiguous. Its petals also dissolve and become an entrance to hallucinating worlds.
100 x 150 cms. Acrylic on paper.
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