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El Invitado/The Guest

Oil on canvas – 28 x 40 inches

We’re enjoying a handful of salted almonds and a glass of cold white wine on a Sunday afternoon in an old tavern in Barcelona. The painting is called, “El Invitado/The Guest.” Perhaps it should have been titled “Invisible Triangle,” because of the three corners in the painting: the woman in the patch of light on the left, we the viewers in another patch of light on the right, and the one in the middle, the one only she can see.

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Rain Street – Watercolor – 10 x 15 inches

Ever since I was a child, a theater, any theater, was a magnet of stories and magic, a refuge in my imagination from the indifference of the street and the brutalities of other children. Now the children have faded into memory. Streets are still indifferent and sometimes as brutal as the children, but the theater, any theater, still welcomes me.

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Reds for Susanne Watercolor 8 x 11 inches

A few days ago, just before the end of the year, I learned that an old friend had died. He was a remarkable painter, writer, fly-fisherman and friend, but after he moved from California to Montana, we gradually lost touch. It’s a story you know as well as I do: the wear and tear of years and miles.

No matter how close or how far away we are from people we love, the twin sisters of Life and Death are always constant companions, whether we embrace them or not. Still, it was a surprise to suddenly discover, after other years and miles, that a friend I had lost touch with after she returned from California to her native Germany had re-entered the present.

As I remember, red is one of her favorite colors, so these reds are dedicated to her in the beginning of this new year (and in gratitude to the Twins.)

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