1 - Backyard

This painting has as its origin a photo taken in my garden, it is my self-portrait, I am sitting on a platform with a fake beard built on a dry tree. I have often used my garden as a theater, a source of images, a space that I consider a part of my study. Making sets and using them as subjects to paint is an ancient practice used by artists, not far from the table with Morandi's bottles. I think painting as a flow of imagination and meaning, this painting is about my new physical and mental landscape in Los Angeles. There are parts of the painting made by printing the details directly on the oil color, the color palette is not far from the Disney cartoon, my figure is the border where my European culture mixes with the American one.