Artworks

The last summer we were in Cuba, there were a lot of weddings

Margarita's debut party was held in an elegant stage set in the courtyard of the Havana Yacht Club,

Machete was my best friend when we were thirteen

The longest relationship that I've had with a woman lasted two years, a fact I'm not proud of

After two years in Miami (and the Bay of Pigs) my father realized that we would not be returning to Cuba

Stuart spent two years working every week-end on a 1942 Mercury Woody

I met Carmen in a party in Boston in 1978

When I was one year and three months old, my sister Margarita and I were given with our milk a chocolate called Cal-Ce-Tose, which was "succeeding in making us fatter."

My father's best friends growing up were his three brothers

In 1967 I dropped out of graduate school for six months and drove cross-country to San Francisco

In 1973 I quit my job as an architect and became an artist

Margarita married Nicolas when she was eighteen and he was twenty-six

Machete and I left Cuba the summer of 1960

I was ten years old spending my first summer away from home at Camp Pasquaney, where every Monday the campers would climb a different mountain

When i arrived at Tio Luis' farm, i met Helenita, who was visiting my cousin Nina

My cousin Sergio won three gold medals swimming for the Havana Yacht Club in 1983

My Uncle Victor has ten children

My mother's thirteen year old poodle, Woody, was well cared for

When we were fifteen, Machete and I met two attractive Miami coeds on a week-end trip to Havana

Every time I return to my house, I always look forward to playing back the messages in my phone machine: I'm always hopeful that someone interesting is inviting me to dinner

My father, a businessman, thoroughly disapproves of my artistic lifestyle my financial irresponsibility, my failure to get married and and raise a family, and he doesn't understand art

My parents came to Boston for my architectural school graduation

Up to third grade, everything I knew about school I knew from Miss Grey, the English live-in tutor in Cunagua

I introduced Hervin to his first wife, Cindy, when Hervin and I were roommates in Paris in 1970