"Love and Spoil" is a painting that pays homage to motherhood. As a child, the first thing I was taught to write was "My mom loves me. My mom spoils me. I love my mom" "Mi mamá me ama. Mi mamá me mima. Yo amo a mi mamá" Those sentences are embedded in most of us, latino men and women, and they are shown as the background in this painting. This artwork is a homage to all those women that are perpetuating our family trees. Our moms.
I guess it is no surprise it was collected by the mother of the curator of one of the shows where it was exhibited!
Insomnia as part of the public project at L'Aquila, Italy 2017. The jurors for this project were: Ian Alteveer, curator at the NY Metropolitan Art Museum, Valerio Bindi, Anti-director del Crack, architect, illustrator and cartoonist, and Malin Fezehai, photographer and film maker. The image was used to cover a 7-story scaffolding of the Teatro Comunale, which is one of the most important symbols of the cultural life in L'Aquila.