Grandmother and baby mother Painting

This piece is a portrait of my grandmother holding my mother when she was a baby. It was planned as a mother´s day gift for mom. She has it in her house. My grandmother used to be a very beautiful woman, astonishing. She was from Manabí, a place here where people say that the most beautiful woman in the world comes from. She was so classical, simplistic, and elegant in her way to dress. She looked like a Hollywood movie star even when she had children. My mother is her first child. She had a pretty tough life, but she was always a ridiculously generous, extremely loving person. Something I always remember about her is something my mother told me: "no matter how beautiful she was, we always were poor, we never suddenly got relieved from our poorness, she never sell herself even when she could, she had 3 or 4 jobs instead". I want people to reflect on the pureness of her soul, she was an abandoned woman for her own decision, she never married grandfather, he abandoned her after she refused, and having 2 of his daughters, she regretted later. She was always in need. She was not "pure" in her time, because of the pre-marital sex or because she refused to marry. But, God, she was pure in her intentions, in the love she gave my grandfather, in the way she fought for her children, how she refused to bring other men near her daughters, the way she had to accept her faith after my mom never forgot her not gave her a father, how she was as beautiful as the sun. I chose pastel because of the pureness of white.

Painting:Pastel on Cardboard

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:16.5 W x 23.4 H x 0 D in

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