‘Glorious CicaTricks, Homage to Junot Díaz’, Aluminium Dye Sublimation, 80 X 120 cm (32 X 48 inches), 2020.Junot Díaz is... Read More
‘Glorious
CicaTricks, Homage to Junot Díaz’, Aluminium Dye Sublimation, 80 X 120
cm (32 X 48 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 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) and certainly not to depict 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 …