Still Life with Alzheimer’s Number 2

Still Life with Alzheimer’s Number 2 is the second painting in a series. This series of paintings explores scenes of unexplainable events. When I was younger,  my father suffered from a disease that consumed not only his mind but his life, too. Painting these paintings was my way of trying to come to terms with what was going on. I would see scenes like this one, of half-eaten fruit discarded and randomly placed around the house. And I would document them, whether it be through photographs or sketches. This was my way of expressing the absurdity of my situation and trying to understand why I was the one who was going through it. I finished painting this painting in 2014. The canvas was lying around the house, and I decided this image was what i wanted to paint. I positioned the image within the canvas and painted the dead space. Years later, one night, while sleeping, I had a vision of painting another series of works based on Asterix and Obelix. So I woke up and opened the comic and painted the first image i saw on the reverse of the canvas. This was the first frame that later expanded into several large-scale artworks. These artworks were never shown to the public, as i was asked to give up my project with the Asterix universe. This painting is the painting that got me accepted into university.