Glorious CicaTricks, Homage to Junot Díaz - Limited Edition of 25 Print

‘Glorious CicaTricks, Homage to Junot Díaz’, Aluminium Dye Sublimation, 120 X 80 cm (48 X 32 inches), 2020. Junot Díaz is a contemporary Dominican-American writer, one of my beloved ones, and the winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel ‘The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao’, published in 2007. In his writing Díaz uses hefty dose of humor and metaphors. Some of these in his novel ‘The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao’ relate to the adolescent Beli, one of the novel’s protagonists: “… and what about that supersonic culo that could tear words right out of niggers’ mouths, pull windows from out their motherfucking frames? A culo que jalaba más que una junta de buey. Dios mío! (An ass that pulled more than a pair of oxen. OMG!)”. On one occasion while Beli was fucking with her boyfriend in a broom closet at school, a teacher surprised the undercover couple and Diaz invites us to imagine the scene: “… Beli butt naked, her vast scar like nothing anybody had seen before…” On top of painting I have a few more vices, one of which is prose writing. Regrettably however, I still don’t know how to metaphorically praise and glorify the beauty of the perfect woman next to me, nor how to portray her tricks-intensive ass as a supersonic might, even though it is really more like a twin-engine F-15 Eagle fighter aircraft. I certainly don’t know how to portray the cut that halves it, as the most glorious cicatrix nobody had ever seen before, well, except me. The day I will be able to get close to such glorious metaphorical writing will be sheer bliss. In the meantime, I'm happy simply trying to paint this beautiful perfect woman’s Glorious CicaTricks, while listening to the glorious piano sounds of another beloved Caribbean, one Rubén González …

Print:Giclee on Photo Paper

Size:12 W x 8 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:17.25 W x 13.25 H x 1.2 D in

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