Summer 2008

Summer is almost gone. I started this painting at the beginning of the season, thinking of the refreshing concept that oranges, grapefruit, limes, and lemons bring to people's minds. At the end they might look like the old-fashioned hard candy we used to buy at the local general stores wherever we were. Slices of lime are added to drinks, grapefruit is good for the flu, OJ is the fruit juice mostly sold worldwide and lemons sometimes remind you of the bitter moments we have to go through in life. However, we have to turn things around and think positively. As they say in Brazil, "se o destino te der um limao, faca uma caipirinha" ("if fate gives you a lime, make a caipirinha" (Brazilian national popular drink). Let's see what the Fall will bring.