Marta

By Paul D Robertson

Bitumen,

70 x 53 cms

sold

This was my first ever bitumen, I don't remember whom it is of, those days are all pretty blurry. I probably made it up.

It looks exactly like a girl I had a long and futile crush on while at university. Her name was Marta - I knew she liked it but not that she seriously wanted to buy it. Such things were beyond my credulity at the time. One of her friends eventually found me as we graduated and paid an absurdly small amount of money for it as a present for her. You don't want to know how little. Well maybe you do. I think it was $40.

hm.

Well, that's nearly a carton of cigarettes.