Works closed, not finished

     Dear Fran,

in your last email you asked me about the paintings that may, one day, be exhibited in Guillena.

     I have to tell you that there are already half a dozen that I have managed to ‘close’. You know that I don't like to say 'finish' when I refer to a painting, because I am convinced that a work of this type is never finished; as never a score or a poem is finished. It is common that when the artist, at the turn of the years, meets his creation again, he has the impulse to alter, to put or take away from here or there and to reopen the moment of creation.

Guillena. Distortion

     What feelings am I experiencing with the project? I will tell you that it is a mixture of self-satisfaction (insofar as I think about the purpose of this work) and resignation. Because I have to tell you that it's taking me a little more effort than I'm used to, especially on a mental level, since as the canvases are destined to be bought and — I am one hundred percent sure— the buyers will be humble people with few economic resources, I am not painting in complete freedom; yes, I do it under the pressure of signing a landscape, an old house, a flower or an ancient food market, thinking about how these people would like to see their town represented and not how I would do it if it were for me.

Las Pajanosas. Oranges

                           

 

Torre de la Reina. Lemons

                                                   

    

P. S. The works will not be sold at a proportionate price; rather, they will be discounted because I have in my mind that most of them can be sold if not all.      

     Y. a.

     Mary