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So I'm back at work since Thursday. I decided to take a couple days off to really digest this new reality. Of course I have been talking with him all weekend. Saturday they spent the day in the city checking out museums, his favorite was the Rufino Tamayo Museum of Art. He mentioned that he had never seen a work of art in person. 30 years he has spent studying the masters and learning from books, but has never actually seen a piece of art up close like that. He was 32 years old when he was arrested. My sister told me that they had lunch in the city and they took him out for hot buffalo wings, something else he had never eaten and now loves. I keep asking my sister how she sees him and how she thinks he is doing. She tells me that he is often confused and tripped out on everyday mundane things. He was tripped out when they were in a parking lot and approached one of those parking ticket dispensers. Swiping a credit card and pushing a few buttons and having the ticket come out was something he had never seen and had never thought about, little things like that. She tells me he is totally spaced out sometimes like he has a thousand different feelings all at once and other times he is like a child discovering new things. Yesterday they drove to the Mexican state of Toluca which is near the capital, but at a higher elevation with snow capped mountains, he loved it. They were there to deliver a painting to a client.
If you were wondering he has made up his mind and is going with the new iPhone instead of Android. lol
As far as posting on here and wondering about his past and his crimes. None of that matters anymore it's all in the past and seriously nothing you guys write is going to offend me, like at all. There is no secrets and there is nothing that the news outlets in Mexico and the U.S. haven't already reported. Our family has gone through years and years of exposure to every type of criticism or praise that you can imagine. We are so happy, I am so happy I don't think anything could get me down anymore, like for the rest of my life!
He has not started painting of course he is setting up his studio right now. I am very interested to see what his new paintings will look like now that he is free. For years his paintings have had a dark side to them or a strong political angle to them. He said he couldn't help it, as much as he tried to make happier art it always turned dark. His painting were also dull at times like void of color. It was difficult for him to access a good amount of quality paints. I would place orders for him through Utrecht.com in NYC because that was the only place he liked to buy paints from if he was not mixing his own paints. But that got to be very expensive. I would often treat him with a tube of white oil paint made from Led or Zinc from the website and just one tube was an easy $150. So he had a limited source of supplies. He would make his own knives and spatulas too. Now he has access to the best tools possible. Maybe a dope set of brushes would be a great Christmas present for him but I also want to get him a MBP like a 15" one he has no idea what those things are capable of doing haha.
Here are a few pics from the weekend.
In the first one he is with his wife checking out some of the Architecture in Toluca.
This is him inside the Rufino Tamayo museum in Mexico City.
This last photo is so powerful and moving to me and my whole family. This is just about an hour after being released. My little sister is holding him. She is 20 and has never known him outside of Prison.
- pretty amazing how life must be so new for him. Glad this is all happening Hijo and that you get to have more years with your pops.capn_ron
- I know he's got a reasonable-enough excuse, but you really need to talk him out of holstering his phone on his belt like that.detritus
- yup :)moldero
- no joke, I got emotional reading this because it's so upliftingmonospaced
- wait how can your sister be 20 when your dad has been in prison for 31 years?mekk
- :)Maaku
- Awesome. Ive always wanted to do a documentary about a person who was in prison for a long time and gets out to a new world. You're doing it through words.ArmandoEstrada
- lol detritus totally!!HijoDMaite
- @mekk conjugal visits.HijoDMaite
- This last photo is touching. Me alegro mucho por vosotros :)OBBTKN
- This a very touching story.yurimon
- Cheers for sharingsureshot
- I wish you'd put this on a site somewhere. It's a great story worthy of more than telling on QBN.mg33
- I'm curious about so many things, especially what prison life was like for him over time.mg33
- Seems like so many countries just have horrible prisons, harsh way of life in them. It's awesome that he was able to paint and do other things.mg33
- So I'm curious about how those opportunities came to be, when, when it felt like there was a consistency to his life there.mg33
- congrats man, i'm sooo stoked for you!scarabin
- @mg33 maybe i should do an AMA lol I'm so happy!!HijoDMaite
- iPhone wins again! Suck it benn!!pango
- lol, pangoGnash