José Rodeiro Tapas in Marbella oil-on-canvas, 53" x 48," 1998.
During a typical afternoon siesta in Marbella (Spain), a group of aristocrats pause to nibble tapas. Yet, underneath the surface, an extraordinary temporal push/pull looms, simultaneously uniting vanished existence with current existence, portending a universe crammed with countless temporal/spatial worm-holes, which merge the known with the unknown, the remembered with the forgotten -- inexplicably binding the Jurassic Age, Spanish Golden Age, the 20th Century and the 21st Century together. The painting explores current Amnesis theory of Bolivian poet Nicomedes Suarez-Arauz, with its push/pull of unconnected entities and events, lost incidents and objects, which originate from profuse lacunae inherent within irretrievable (lost) memory(ies) that ultimately inspire all artistic-creativity.