A Diptych

Two paintings with a similar subject matter can be very powerful. Beyond encompassing a larger area where they are hung, they create a certain feeling, more poignant than a single painting.

With these two paintings, I wanted to set the viewer somewhere foreign, not so exotic, but in a small courtyard of a modest house of stone and stucco, and where the sun is hot and the days are relentlessly bright. The land is arid, yet there is beauty to behold. There is life there, as life encompasses this earth almost everywhere.

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