Straight from the oven, just made and right on the blog.
Directo del horno, recien hecho y al blog.

Air…

Encaustic on paper 20×20cm
Little baby…blue

This piece was inspired by the little houses I see from my window.
Esta obra fue inspirada por las pequeñas casas que veo desde mi ventana.
25×30cm encaustica sobre tablilla

As it’s traditional here in Catalunya for Saint George’s day ( Sant Jordi), Gerard gave me a book and a rose.
The book he gave me was Noam Chomsky’s Hegemony or Survival. The book’s first chapter, which I’ve just finished reading, gives you enough to chew on for a while.
It’s really sad to see how a country which is supposed to be the example per-excellence of democracy and justice is rulled by an elite of despotic polititians, expert manipulators of public opinion, capable of perpetrating the worse of crimes. Americans are loosing their freedom in front of their faces. If the people don’t regain control of the situation it’s only going to get worse.

In the base of all conflicts, there is always a concept that keeps rising. There are those who think that is better a lesser injury, sacrificing what is needed, than to suffer a greater harm for not “preventing” it. This is what the US government keeps using as an excuse for preventive attacks, in other countries and in it’s own nation. This is also the way people who support the death penalty think. Is this the kind of culture that should dominate the world?

Beautiful work of my friend Don Farrel:
Here’s a new pen and ink work I just finished. It’s actually part of a bigger mixed media assembly project that’s being photographed in the studio now. This section is officially called “Island ever-shrinking in a swelling sea of stars”. Now I have only one more illustration left to do before all the pictures for my book are done!!

Today I read with envy that Miquel Barceló will be exhibiting in el Prado! no contemporary artist has exhibited there ever, not even Picasso. It’s the sanctum sanctorum of classicism. Not only that, he’s been invited with honors to the Louvre. I whish I were him, painting in his Mallorquinian palace eight hours a day. Only Tapies has the same recognition and he’s at the end of his life, while Barceló is only in his 40’s. grumph!!