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Napkin

Marker. 7’5 x 11’5 cm.

Private collection

Párraga was always drawing on any paper and on any occasion, during a conference or a talk... not because he wasn’t interested in the topic -he would always intervene at the end, or at any moment, with his particular way of talking fraught with the word «like»- but because of a vital necessity. His friend García Montalvo recalled this characteristic ability: «...with a remnant of a cigarette in the crease of his mouth, talking non-stop. At some point he would smile, stop working, and invite you to a modest aperitif, always with a bright glass of red wine». (1)

His hand moved on its own in the middle of that chaos and traced senseless scribbles, curved or straight -depending on his mood- with no apparent order, creating a convoluted image that often hid something more.

In this modest napkin we can easily find some faces -even his own sad and and haggard caricature can be seen in between the magenta marker strokes.

(1) Pedro García Montalvo. "MI HERMANO JOSÉ MARÍA PÁRRAGA" Escrito para la inauguración de los murales restaurados del IES Floridablanca de Murcia.
2 de Mayo de 2016

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