When it came the moment that I had to look at the portrait to give it a name, a title that could identify it ... I did not know very well, because even being the portrayed person myself and knowing my feelings, I looked at it and I did not know very well helped by the expression what I was really feeling: happiness, weariness, even disgust?. I could not tell. I kept looking around to see if there was any powerful detail that suggested another possible title and I could not find it, rather it was diffuse.

Without any doubt, the centre is the expression and the look. No, it’s not that smile that some may think, is it a smile ?, hence ... its title. These expressions are simply given by life, by experience, by the passage of time. Certainly, you can not put a similar countenance being in your twenties, even in your thirties etc. It’s the air that remains after comprehending the world as it is, people as they are, with their true faces. And yet, I like this artwork and the time spent working in it.