Just that one dude kinda looks like him.
Ugh, didn’t know that about that gallery. Oh well, it’s not like I can afford to shop there!
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Oh I see, thank you. The foreground figure does look a little like him.
Yeah I can’t afford to shop there either. 
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Tobias Bradford-- very Halloweeny…
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Did anyone else’s mind go here?
And then here?
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Enrique Grau, Panoramica de Cartagena, 1997-98
Here’s an article about the meaning of the center panel of the triptych, rather poorly auto-translated from Spanish and mildly edited by myself (source):
Save me Virgin of the Candelaria
By: Martha Zuñiga
February is the month of the Virgin of the Candelaria, patron saint of the city and in commemoration of it, we want to show you one of the works of our Master Enrique Grau, who is part of the triptych located in MAMC’s Grau Hall.
The painting narrates the episode that turned into an anecdote of the Grau Araújo family and which marked a milestone in the history of Colombia’s aviation.
According to Grau, on an afternoon in July 1920, his uncle Miguel Araújo went out to fly over the city in a monoplane, with very bad luck. What happened over the Church of San Pedro Claver, the plane caught fire. The uncle could only maneuver the plane to try to land in Bocagrande, which at that time was a immense beach populated by mangroves, beach huts, palm trees, and icaco shrubs. In his desperation, he threw himself into the void. As he falls, he screams, “Save me Virgin of the Candelaria!”, who listens to him and does a miracle for him, because he falls into icaco shrubbery. Since then, the Virgin of the Candelaria, patron saint of Cartagena de Indias, of whom Enrique Grau clarifies that it she is also the protector of the Grau family.
In the popular version of the accident and according to historical records, on July 20, 1920, there arrived in the city, from Barranquilla, a monoplane piloted by an Italian captain of Mr. Fratoni and as a passenger came Mr. Arturo Gerlein, owner of the airplane. The plane was used to transport the mail. Enrique’s father Grau Araújo, who was mayor of the city, was invited to fly that afternoon, so he could see the city from the air, but he couldn’t accept, because he was supposed to inaugurate the baseball field of La Matuna, where a historic match would be played between the teams of Cartagena and Barranquilla. Instead, the Mayor sent his brother-in-law Don Miguel Araújo, loaded with a camera to do some photographs during the flyover. The plane took off but crashes into Bocagrande. Dr Araújo was the only survivor, but he was badly injured and had multiple fractures. As in the city there was no technology to heal him, they sent him to Panama, where the doctors of the Panama Canal hospital saved him and placed many pieces of metal in him. Says his nephew, the Admiral Rafael Grau, he barely got a slight limp. His recovery was entrusted to the Virgin of the Candelaria and as he was saved, his family was devoted. As an important fact, this was the second aviation accident in Colombia and is registered as follows:
Date: 20-07-1920.
Location: Cartagena de Indias
Aircraft: Farman, model F40
Name: Santa Marta
People on board: Cap. Fratoni (killed)
Pasj: Don Miguel Araújo (injured)
Mr. Arthur Gerlein (killed)
Cause of fact: It is unknown.
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I don’t know if anyone has ever wondered where I got my profile picture from, but if anyone has, here is the answer.
I cannot really explain what drew me to his art or this image in particular, so in lieu of an explanation, I often turn to the Japanese expression 幽玄 (Yūgen), which is untranslatable but refers (at least in the context of the arts) to a kind of wonderment, an almost nostalgic longing for something ethereal, intangible and enigmatic. It refers to the innate beauty of that which is unfathomable.
This image stirs up something inside of my heart, as though it were a long-forgotten memory from a past life.
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