Portrait 1

Watercolours.

The Chess Game

Full view of a chess match in an extremely exaggerated epic and dramatic way. From when the armies and nations rise, following the moments of the battle until the complete defeat of one of the sides. It´s a lithography series, by the way.

Castle of Gray

Two lithographies I felt like I should save them from their more than forseeable oblivion. At least here, in the blog, they will have a last permanent space on the memory.

Cat stamps. EXTRA

I forgot this one. Which is, by the way, I consider it even one of the best! Sometimes the stare can be very emotional despite the first coldness you can get at first...

Cat Stamps. Bonus

These are the stamps that were discarded before the final delivery.

These ones are about the good faces that people put mostly often.

Latvia doesn´t have a very good appartment quality, and if a spanish says this (because Spain average houses are not precisely the best of the best) something goes fairly bad.

We have some harassment here!

This is a joke about the cats themselves: they are all around the streets, they are the main fauna (it´s much better than having rats).

More stalking and antipathy around!

Annexation (basic history, current society)

Let´s scratch the sensible parts...Don´t take it very seriously. Although I wouldn´t say this is (or was) completely untrue.

Latvian Society stamps (Part 2)

Yes! Let´s carry on with this funny series mocking about latvian behaviour and society. Here come the next ones!

The first one is, probably, the stamp which has the deepest meaning of all them. The cat´s sentence has latvian and russian words referencing the mixing society (and persons) of latvian and russian population (remind that almost half of the population is russian origin). And another thing the stamp is referencing is the not very good service that Riga´s public transport offers which is...it can be sometimes very slow and unpredictable. Also, and most important, express the rudeness of a lot of people.

The next one is a mock about the main (and only) car trademark in the soviet ages whose cars where being marketed. So, in previous years you only saw Lada cars running on latvian roads. Similar as you only saw SEAT 600 in like most of the francoist years in Spain during Franco Regiment. The same, and with the same I mean that you could see some Renaults or Citroën aswell, so in Latvia you could see SAABs too.

Ok...the left image is very serious, just like most of the faces you see when you are walking around. Worst of all, this cat makes you jinx just with its staring.

The right image it´s a bit random, but not for that is less real...you can perceive some filtring occasionally.

The upper stamp talks about some persons (usually old ladies) who are watching the street from her window like if there was something wrong in there. Oh yeah, this happens everywhere...but here (I mean, in...in this country) is usual in young population too, oddly.

And the last one is about an old friend seen before. Remember the cat from "Such a lonely day" stamp? He´s back! and he has had another lonely day! So, damnit! Let´s forget the time and pities and let´s drink some typical alcoholic drinks! Here, it´s very popular the balsam, a drink which has an average alcohol level.