About Still Life

Inspired by the work of Luis Caballero Holguín, one of the most impressive discoveries I made, thanks to Ana, while I was in Colombia in February I wrote this poem. For the first time this poem was not published immediately, as I'm used to do when I'm writing poetry,  but I worked on it at several moments the last couple of months till now, when I thought it was ready, contemplating as if it was a painting.

Luis Caballero (1943-1995) Bogotá, Colombia. Luis Caballero Holguín, one of the most significant Latin American painters of the second half of the twentieth century, considered his homosexuality a fundamental component of his artistic expression. He frequently described semen as his most important artistic medium.

For the last twenty-five years of Caballero's life, the nude male figure was his only subject. In his turbulent, large-scale compositions, he expressed the interaction of sensuality with aggression and even death (*)

(*)from http://miamibiennale.org