Large format drawing, charcoal on paper, from the coveted series ATC Charcoal. This one is one of the first drawing of the series, and one that introduced an element I am now developing in painting: the Deck Chair Series, the chair as a compositive element, a white shape and a metaphor of desolation, of human presence, witha landscape as a backdrop that is beautiful but looms over the chairs. The first 14 drawings of this series ( there will be 30 of them at the end) were featured as the main work oh my solo show at Museo Alejandro Otero, TROPICO CAMUFLADO (2013-14 Caracas, Venezuela). They have their origin on the camouflage series of paintings that preceded them. The soldiers just disappeared to lead behind a newly found need to observe and decode the landscape They hide into). The plants, tropical, all from the urban jungle of my natal city, Caracas, became a metaphor. They became exercises of zen-like observation, of the growing cycle of nature, and nature's engineering. These drawings, attractive, but also dark and broody, seem to have certain effect on the viewer: sometimes people see faces hiding in them. But there are none, I can assure you.