the other day i caught mom cleaning an old handbag of hers, it had not been touched for over thirty years! she was throwing out a lot of stuff like letters and payment stubs that i decided to keep but had no idea what to do with them until recently. i decided to paint small, intimate objects on them and this is the first one, a coca leaf on a pay stub for my parent's house. like in my watercolour series, i have no idea what i will paint on the next one.

i am very interested in objects that have a memory and this pay stub tells part of my parent´s story, it has my father´s name and the address of their home as well as my grandparent´s one.i love it, i´ve loved keeping it, i´m glad i found mom right at the moment when she was trashing them.