This is the darkest painting I have done so far. The subject came out in March 2018 as I read the news online about an unjustifyed excecution of two teenagers in Mexico by the local police. The name of the girls were Nefertiti and Grecia. The painting is a reproduction of one of the few existing images of what happened that day. The body position of the subject in the middle is the real position Nefertiti (the teenager) was before she died.
Since the violence has increased in Mexico in the last decades, the term “desaparición” (disappearance) has been used to say that someone is gone. Sometimes the person vanishes before their body is found lifeless.
The word disappearance can alude to the idea of getting lost, or not to be found but in this and many other cases this is inforced upon the person. Hence the title of the painting.
As I read the news it impacted me deeply (it still does) and I felt the need of in a way honor the life of this young people and their families. This is by no means a way to honor, since this was a ver un-honorable happening. But this as many other horrible sucesses had gone lost in the minds of some but never in the hearts of those who have compassion for the suffering of others. This is a way (maybe the I do) to show, to try to portray a moment, a horrible moment between life and death at the hands of someone who beholds power and uses it againts other beings.
