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mariam shambayati: January 2009

26.1.09

BUSCANDO A LUCIA














Buscando a Lucía, 2008
two 61 x 61 cm
acrylic on canvas


After about 4 years of having promised Lucia that I would paint a portrait of her and her son Ivan, I finally got around to it this past month. This portrait is from the time when Lucia was Olga and Ivan was 6 years old and we were all living in bruc. A saturday or sunday morning just before christmas preparing the Belen...
Now I find the double portrait to be a bit strange. Lucia, it´s as if she wears a Japanese Butho mask, and Ivan is very ape-like in posture and figure. But I think with time, it will come to acquire special meaning for them.

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