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Life is full of surprises. On the hottest morning of the summer, for example, you step outside onto the balcony to brush your hair. The minute your back has turned, your bed and clothing evaporate, a suitcase and a man’s jacket appear out of nowhere, and your home begins to fill up with snow.
I know this woman well. Life does not faze her, snow and cold least of all.

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La Mirada – Watercolor – 20 x 28 inches

Spain is rightly called a “Crossroad of Cultures.” Over the course of several millennia, Celts, Visigoths, Muslims, Romans, Carthaginians and who knows how many others have settled here and called it home. Invasions and wars seem to have been the rule, rather than the exception. La Mirada is “the gaze.” You can encounter it anywhere, but most often when you, a stranger, enter a village or a deserted street in the oldest neighborhood of a city. A face peers out from behind curtains and La Mirada asks: “Should I fear you?” “Are you friend or enemy?” #artistsoninstagram #art #artforsale #cityscapes #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #realisticart #fineart #watercolorpainting #arte
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Sketch of Tulips
Watercolor and pencil – 9 x 12 inches

Not one can write a sonnet or hum a sonatina

or win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

None of them has ever lied or harbored any

jealousy towards peonies or rhododendrons.

They cannot be taught to fear immigrants

or to hate Muslims and Latinos.

Not one contaminates the world with plastics or

cares about your gender or your sexual choices.

They don’t care who wields the scissors or

who fills the glass with water. They only want

A little patch of dirt, some rain and sunlight
and to give us the joy of their presence every Spring.

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