Cherries collectors

Oil on canvas, 1993, 60 x 140 cm.

The origin of my family is rural, comes from agricolture. My uncles were farmers and cattle ranchers. I spent the summers of my childhood and my adolescence in the midst of cows and turkeys, jumping on haystacks and running into the sea of cornfields. After days of arduous explorations in the woods and imaginary catches of wild beasts, my cousin and I used to steal some fruit from the trees in the fields, but without guilt, because we thought it was our own, and we were part of everything.

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