"Memories of Love"

(mixed media on cardboard, 30X40, 1998)

"Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered."
Al Capp

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
William Shakespeare

"Memories of love" is one of my most rapidly executed paintings. I was twenty at the time, madly in love and impatient. When I was working on this painting I just had to get the image out of my system asap.

Nowadays, I take my time when I paint and sometimes it takes me months to complete a painting… I want to enjoy the process. I feel that some paintings are like good books: you don’t want to read it too fast because you don’t want for it to end. The more I think of it the more I understand how similarly I approach my two greatest passions in live: reading and painting. When I was younger and really enjoyed something I had to finish (reading or painting) it in one day. I couldn’t go to sleep unless I knew how it ended. Since then I learned how to pace myself, because I finally realized that knowing how something ends is not as enjoyable as taking your time to discover its contents. I suppose that understanding the power of anticipation is one of the perks of getting older. Patience is not just a virtue; it’s a path to happiness.