Yesterday Cafe, 1983 Painting

The original photograph for this painting was found among a box of family treasures. The photograph originally shows my mother and father 14 years before I was born in 1983 reflected in the window of a cafe in Amsterdam. The surreal combination of the inner and outer life of this painting, display an almost parrel universe esque ness. Along with how odd it would be for the offspring of the making of this photograph to be painting and reminiscing it 38 years later. This painting had me thinking a lot about time. Here is something I wrote whilst in the midst of it all. 'How do you feel about time? For me, I find it both heartbreakingly sad and paradoxically magically brilliant... this painting is dedicated to time. In all its beauty. Thank you for your ever-expanding bending and weaving... and leading the ever-changing road of existence.'