chalk pastel on paper; 16×12″

“Painted during the early days of quarantine, this self-portrait captures the moment before leaving the house to enter the Covid-squeezed world. The Patagonia hat is changed to Patacon, the name for a fried plantain in Latin America. While embracing my culinary orientation, it also symbolizes the botanically fried nature of our new reality.”

ARTIST BIO: Alfonso Romero lives in Kentucky with his wife, three children, two dogs, and cellphone. He took up art rather late in life, much like his namesake, George W. Bush, but unlike whom he has not yet mastered his craft. (adromero.net)