Year 2011
Oil on board
62 x 50 cm

Mastering portraiture is a great professional challenge.

The scarcity of economic resources or the haste of the
assignment forced me, at times, to be my own model.

The infinite hours and the fast years went by, leaving in
the face of the girl I once was, the testimony of time.

Those past springs are today just a handful of distant memories, like the wild dried flowe rs adorning the straw hat of this portrait of a woman, for a non-existent bucolic landscape.

The maturity, like the summer, dries up all the green.

©María José Aguilar