A COUPLE OF HATS Painting

Of these two hats, one is mine and the other it’s my wife’s Anna. Both are evidently summer straw hats. Mine is a Borsalino Panamá, that gave me my sister Carla, many hears ago. Until a certain stage of our life, my sister and me we used to swap presents, for Christmas and for birthday. We leaved this habit in our old age, as we stop giving toys to the kids, when they grow up. The hat get me a little bit large, so I almost never wear it. Also, in general, hats have never been part of my clothing. I put it on just to take a picture, that was taken from Guillem, the Anna’s son, and which I used for a detail of the painting “Tea Time”, painted in 2013. In the painting, I’m represented from the back, dressed in black and with the Borsalino on my head, while watching amazed, from under the columns of a temple, the giants Frogs-Boat, transporting passengers from shore to shore of the Ganges river in Varanasi, the old Benares. The other hat, the one of Anna, is deeply pink, twilight. In Catalan there’s a nice song saying: “Rosa que l’amor si posa” (Pink, where love lean on). It’s actually true. The backdrop of the two canvases, given that they are summer hats, is the large Pals Beach, here in the Empordá coast.