New York State Of Mind No.29 / HornyHavana

I’m grateful to “HornyHavana” for the September 7th and 8th
Cachita-Regla’s extravaganza, featuring my “Virgin Boat No.47” from
‘La Virgen de la Caridad series’

and a detail of my “Notre Dame de L'Eau” ‘La Virgen de Regla/Yemayá’.

New York State of Mind No.28

Cepp Selgas / "Icon" / Enamel on lead / 18X18X3ins. - 1999-2013 (Mercedes Mestre Collection)

Back in 1999, when I was working on a series of ‘Saints’ on folded paper, I decided to ‘play’ with these two square of flat pieces of lead, same way I was doing with paper.  Since I was not able to figured-out an easy way to connect both pieces, I abandoned the project and rolled it like an ancient papyrus scroll, put it away and forgot the whole matter. 

I didn’t realize when I was moving out to my new place mid-2012, the ‘scroll’ was left behind in a hidden conner of a closet.  A week after, the forgotten piece was found and brought to my attention by someone very close to a famous cuban art collector, with a surprising question... -Would you mind if I show this to Mercedes Mestre? 

Not at all…lucky me!

Portrait by Alexis Rodriguez-Duarte

Virgin-Boat No.70 / 2008

Des-ART-chivando

Cepp Selgas / "Dream of Dreamers" / Acrylic on paper / 24X18ins. / 1990

New York State of Mind No.15 / In Search of Myself...

On the Net I found This...

...The number 47 of of my "Virgin-Boat"series. It was my homage to Pope John Paul II' pastoral visit to Cuba in 1998. Love it!...but the whole mystery about 'hornyhavana' still going on.   

New York State of Mind No.14 / In Search of Myself...

...On the Net, I found this:

 Even though, I'm still confused by this "hornyhavana" site.  Meaning…what (the hell) is the whole thing  about!.

Few days ago I saw one of my "Cachitas" here.  And because today is 'Her Day'  and she was the favorite of 22 visitors then...'today'... A Cachita le da la gana!

https://twitter.com/search?q=la%20caridad%20selgas&src=typd&mode=realtime

Los juegos prohibidos de Oshún / At Zoé

http://zoevaldes.net/2012/09/07/yalodde-virgen-de-la-caridad-del-cobre-los-juegos-prohibidos-de-oshun-cepp-selgas/

Este es un cuadro feliz. Y hoy es un magnifico día para darle unas brochaditas de historia.

La imagen de Zoé como hija idónea de Oshún para los retratos en mi Expo “Los hijos de los Dioses”. Un proyecto salido del ingenio de su hermano Gustavo, al cual yo ya había representado como Aggayú Solá -San Cristóbal de La Habana.

Mi intención estilística fue tratar el tema africano con ojo europeo. Sincretismo a pulso.

Oshún es nuestra Afrodita-Venus-caribeña, y también es nuestra Virgen de la Caridad.

El manto amarillo sube hacia el cielo y los pies de Oshún están reflejados en el espejo sobre un río, por ser la ‘naturaleza’ donde habitan los dioses negros.

En general  todo el cuadro es un altar al sexo femenino. Con su punto central tan obvio.

Hoy por hoy es uno de mis cuadros mas reconocidos. Adoro su destino.

…y yo felíz.