His Two Sisters Did Not Understand His Obsession With the Wind Oil and acrylic on board by Oscar Bernal  20 x 26 inches  2003

The younger sister, inappropriately but tenderly resting her right hand on her brother's delicate thigh, hesitantly shields her embarrassed eyes while taking in the ferocity of the sudden wind's unfortutitous interruption of two amorous seals playfully mating in the distance. The other sister isn't so hesitant but if you look carefully, you might notice that she is looking at you with a particularly jaundiced eye. Oscar Bernal, tragically born in 1945, is a painter of Chinese and Mexican extraction living in Berkeley, California. In this painting, a gust of playful whimsy gives way to his usual ghastly morbid obsession with the corrupt and evil forces insidiously dominating the outcome of mankind's ultimate fate. ___Muldoon Elder