Record Keeper

Keepers of Chaouen series

Oil on canvas - 2012 - 50cm x 50cm - (available, $800 USD)

They say that Love keeps no record of wrongs, but this guy seems to watch over the square with a laundry list of mis-steps and sins. Sitting on the same bench as “Law Keeper” like a cartoon bad conscience, Record Keeper is visibly poisoned by the grudges and unforgiveness in his keeping.

The Keepers of Chefchaouen, in my imagination, represent the countless old men who sit around the edges of Uta Hammam square in the center of the “City of the Blue Pearl” of Morocco. I enjoyed painting the heavy woolen jellabahs in this series as much as the characters wearing them, who so adorned, seem larger than life anyway.

Varnished and framed in black wood, like the rest of the works in the series.