The Scene:
An abandoned hotel* on 6th Street, San Francisco’s Skid Row, early 1970’s.
The Game:
Three-Dimensional chess, with clouds.
The Players:
Gabriel, a Ratter.
Freude, a Film Maker.
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Portrait of a Dancer
Portrait of a Dancer – Oil on canvas – 32 x 40 inches.
This image is a portrait of my niece Ruth, painted in what used to be my studio on the Gran Via in Valencia, Spain. We sense that she’s a pensive young woman, but we don’t know her thoughts. We also can’t share the thoughts of the cat. We suspect, however, that the cat — being a cat — knows whatever there is to know.
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Wounded Angel in a Broken World
How do you paint an angel if you don’t believe angels exist?
This story of an angel begins in Valencia, in Spain, in a public garden called Los Viveros, on the banks of what used to be the river Turia. My friend Antonio Gomis and I like to draw there because it’s green and cool and quiet.
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