i didn´t plan to paint a whole series but now it makes sense, i'm quite sure these pieces will go in my upcoming exhibition

this is my father´s canon camera; he loved taking photographs, mostly for documenting purposes

he must have looked at me through that lens so many times... when he died i kept it, i even used it myself many years ago... the camera brings memories of dad immediately, it´s him, the object is him.

i did some research on the model and found this "the canon canonet was released in 1961 and is remembered as Canon's first entry into the intermediate-class camera market, and also the first of the highly successful canonet series of 35mm automatic-exposure rangefinder cameras" taken from http://camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Canonet i wonder how dad knew about this model, why he bought this specific camera and where are the photos he took with it... maybe he didn´t photograph me with it if it´s such an early camera but then what camera did he use when i was around? this is also reminding me that by the time i was born, dad was tired of having so many kids and did not really take that many pictures of me. i know there´s slides, i´ll see if i can find some. this is what´s happening to me in lima, i´m organically being driven to my past. sometimes i like it but others i´m scared of the findings and the sometimes painful memories...