I lend you my painting if you want to shoot it

I lend you my painting if you want to shoot it.
Circaetus gallicus
Oil painting on wood, about 60 x 130 cm.

Here I show you a work I made for my first exhibition with the group Artists for Nature, in 2007. It was in the CIECEMA exhibition hall in Almonte.
A peculiarity of this work is that when I had finished the painting stage, I asked my friend Antonia Mª Pichardo’s father to shoot it as a sort of performance, trying to “offer” my work as the target for hunters, instead of shooting the real animal.
Among the texts included in the work, besides the title, this short poem stands out:


Hermosa ave de los cielos de mi adolescencia
Excelente viajera, visitadora de África, cruzadora de estrechos
Maravilla del sur que enriquece nuestra primavera



I lend you my painting if you want to shoot it.
Circaetus gallicus
Detail