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I am posting here one of my earliest paintings… “Alice at mirror” is from a time, when I used to paint only with pastels. I am posting this painting because I would like to talk now of the other side of the mirror… Yes, recently I felt the urge of feeling magic realism… the beautiful book I have read from García Márquez forced me to make a break in my readings. I am usually always reading something, but after this book I needed a period of no reading in order to digest it well… and some days ago I watched a film by Almodovar that I have never seen before: “Talk to her”. And again I feel that magic realism is around me now :) These two works made me have a crush on both main characters. The first one was Cayetano Delaura, the tormented priest that fell in love with a 12 years old marquise, and then Benancio, the carer that made love to the girl in coma, he’s looking after. Under these brief and cold descriptions Cayetano would be a pederast and Benancio a rapist. ...

Gabriel García Márquez fictitious personifications are so strong that they are writhing inside my head... I have fell deeply in love with these characters.  And what do I do when I fall in love with someone? I paint it :) so here is the first painting I have made.  The character is the tormented and fascinating Cayetano Delaura from "Of Love and Other Demons"... --------- Los personajes ficticios de Gabriel García Márquez son tan fuertes que aún se retuercen dentro de mi cabeza... Me he enamorado intensamente de estos personajes. Y qué es lo que usualmente hago cuando me enamoro de algo o alguién? Lo pinto :) así que aquí está el primer cuadro que hice.  El personajes es el atormentado y fascinante Cayetano Delaura de "El Amor y otros Demonios"...

I have to thank my daughter, because being her so touched after reading “One hundred years of Solitude”, made me realized that I haven’t read García Márquez since I was a young girl too. So I went to the library and picked up the first book I found.   I devoured it : ) Sometimes my life is flat, I get immersed in everyday routine and definitely reading such a book made me feel inspired again.   I found subjects that have questioned my whole life like craziness, love, myths, obsessions, reality, wonderland… The last exhibition I visited, the one at the Royal Academy gave me the opportunity to experience fantastic paintings, and although I for sure cannot demerit those artists' virtuosism, the most important thing I noticed in those paintings was this quality that makes a painting be so alive for ever: inspiration.   Many times I have lacked inspiration and I have asked myself so many times what can I do to get the muse visit me again… serendipity brought me this book...