Ajiaco: Stirrings Of The Cuban Soul
By CAROL SELMAN
"Among my favorite paintings is Cepp Selgas' (b. 1951) "Children of Obbatala," an acrylic on canvas masterwork where the creation deity Obbatala is represented as both male and female, mother and father, suckling the children of the earth: The rounded back of each infant's head becomes a breast nourishing the infant behind. In the interspaces between the curves of the infant faces are doves, perhaps representing the Catholic Holy Spirit and creating a pattern of negative and positive grounds".
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