Painting: Oil on Canvas.                             Aka: Dia de los Muertos

Painted: 2021

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Owner: In Storage

Music Selection: “Dream On” by Aerosmith

Do you remember your first kiss? Do you remember your first dance? Do you remember your first love? As we move through life these moments occur, but they are fleeting never to be recaptured. If you are lucky, you might get a snapshot of that event. Mostly those moments only live in our memories. This was an experiment to see if I could paint a painting within another painting. Life and love are all parts of life and death. Do you love or death in the painting?

The background is a geometric chaos. It is a time when they celebrate the family’s ancestors in Mexico. It is a festival that is really an odd sort of reunion, but there is food and some dancing. If you’re lucky you may get to steal a kiss without getting thrown in jail for sexual assault.