Preview, Aurelio Grisanty,The Poodle Beach Coloring Book, June 12 - July 8, 2009

The Poodle Beach Coloring Book Exhibition Preview
Aurelio Grisanty

I started coming to Rehoboth the summer of 1985. I was young, in love and from a country where flaunting one's sexuality was strictly for heterosexuals, and any kind of liberty was still restricted by government. When I saw Poodle Beach, my eyes got wet. Such freedom I could not even dream of.

The tyrant was killed in 1961, and with him died the persecution of my family. Free, my grandparents bought an old Victorian house in the center of an enormous garden. I was twelve. For the next two years, which at that age were very long, I lived in that garden. It became the accomplice of all my plots and dreams. It became a refuge, a friend hard to forget. There I learned how green is shaded by red. How, without direct light, yellows become brown. How purple unveils its reds and blues in a transparency. And black does not exist. I learned that small things can make a big context and vice versa. I learned that the character of man is as complex as nature. In 1997 I was granted citizenship by the Government of the United States as an Exceptional Individual of International Renown.

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