Pensamiento

In September 2003 I had an exhibition in Madrid at the Carlos de Amberes Foundation. It was a retrospective of my most recent body of work along with older pieces that acted as a link between past and present. One of the paintings in that exhibition showed four doves taking flight, piercing the infinity of the blue sky. I had immersed them in as many hues of sky blue as I could and they swayed there in infinite peace. 

A young woman approached me and asked me the price of that particular painting. Since the exhibition was held at a cultural foundation and not a gallery, the pieces there weren’t for sale. Nevertheless, she insisted that she wished to purchase the painting. She confided in me her financial situation and I asked her why she was so interested in buying it. She explained to me that her mother was very ill and that her intention was to put the painting on an easel in her mother’s bedroom so she could look at it and feel calm and at peace. She said she wished her mother to dream of a better world in heaven, where those doves were headed… I gave her the painting as a present. 

Jorge Rando, Madrid, November 2003