"Muebles para Nuestra Nueva Casa"

"Muebles para Nuestra Nueva Casa", 12x12" (30.5x30.5 cm), oil on canvas

I found the photo that this painting is based on when I searched for "muebles" (furniture in Spanish) on Twitter in early January 2012. I have included the accompanying tweet in the painting. The Twitpic link to the photo works: http://twitpic.com/86g2u9. My goal was to capture in a more permanent form one of the billions of fleeting moments shared through words and images online. They are more impermanent than snapshots, usually seen by only a few people before they are cast off and forgotten. The man in the photo seems to be checking his smart phone while he is surrounded by what appear to be treasured antiques (an old electric fan, and possibly an old-fashioned washing machine), so this records the moment of time that we live in. I randomly chose to search for a tweet in Spanish. I like to use different languages for the texts in my paintings so that I can communicate with more people. "Muebles para Nuestra Nueva Casa" translates as "furniture for our new house".