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A detail of my "Babalú" / 1990...

 "Babalú" / Oil on muslin / 52X52ins.

New York State Of Mind No.34

Just in recent “Turn of the Century” from 1993 to 2003, more or less, I was using religious images as a main theme for my art. 

For the last ten years I have been working on some other subjects.

Few months ago I made a drawing of a cuban “Saint Lazarus” for a dear friend that happens to be ‘Irish’…and wanted to have it as a permanent tattoo. 

My drawing is now a tattoo on one of his legs…and today is “Babalú Day”…same as in “Baba-Lucy…Ricardo”…that all of us know!

Cepp Selgas / "Babalú" / Ink on paper / 7X10ins. 2014

Babalú

Cepp Selgas / Babalú / Oil on muslin / 52X52in. / 1990.

For all Cubans everywhere, today it's Dia de San Lázaro - Babalú Day. Yes!...the same "Ricky Ricardo' Babalú".
This day always takes me back to kind-of-a-funny memory. Back in time when I asked my mother if I could beg "Babalú" the favor of breaking some horrible-schoolmate' legs. She answered me; no, no he does not break legs...he cures broken legs! - Pity, I said...and still saying.
Yet there is another pleasant one. Some time ago my beloved former-art teacher and great Cuban master Antonia Eiríz, browsing through my Gallery Genesis' catalogue, appointed this Babalú illustrating today' post, as "my best piece" so far then. Not bad for my first Saint Lazarus ever.