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Self-Portrait

Life Is a Shell

Year: 2011
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 31 × 39 in · 80 × 100 cm
Series: Self-Portrait

In this self-portrait I look straight at the viewer — calmly, without explanation. There is an old turquoise table with peeling paint, Cuban and well-loved, sitting in front of me. On it rests a shell. I keep thinking that life is like a shell — everything that matters is hidden deep inside. The shell and I are part of the same still life; her face and mine exist on equal terms.

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Tropical-nocturne painting from the studio in La Habana.

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