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MELQUIADES THE GYPSY AND THE METAL INGOTS
 “... Every year during the month of march a family of ragged gypsies would set up theirs tents near the village and with a great uproar of pipes and kettledrum they would display new inventions.A heavy gypsy with an untamed beard and sparrow hands, who introduced himself as Melquíades, put on a bold public demonstration of what he himself called the eighth wonder of the learned alchemists of Macedonia. He went from house to house dragging two metal ingots and everybody was amazed to see pots, pans, tongs, and braziers tumble down from their places and beams creak from the desperation of nails and screws trying to emerge, and even objects that had been lost for a long time appeared from where they had been searched for most and went dragging along in turbulent confusion behind Melquíades magical irons…..  Jose Arcadio Buendía, whose unbridled imagination always went beyond the genius of nature and even beyond miracles and magic, thought that it would be possible to make use of that useless invention to extract gold from the bowels of the earth….  “ He explored  every inch of the region, even the riverbed, dragging the two iron ingots along and reciting Melquíades incantation aloud.  The only thing he succeeded in doing was to unearth a suit of fifteenth-century armor which had all of its pieces soldered together with rust and inside of which there was the hollow resonance of an enormous stone filled gourd.. When Jose Arcadio Buendia and the four men of his expedition managed to take the armor apart, they found inside a calcified skeleton with a copper locket containing a woman’s hair around its neck".Description
Oleo sobre lienzo  80 x 60 cms. Año 2006

 Homage to GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Nobel Prize Winner 1982.

Harper Perennial Publishing House 1997. Page 1,  
“... Every year during the month of march a family of ragged gypsies would set up theirs tents near the village and with a great uproar of pipes and kettledrum they would display new inventions.A heavy gypsy with an untamed beard and sparrow hands, who introduced himself as Melquíades, put on a bold public demonstration of what he himself called the eighth wonder of the learned alchemists of Macedonia. He went from house to house dragging two metal ingots and everybody was amazed to see pots, pans, tongs, and braziers tumble down from their places and beams creak from the desperation of nails and screws trying to emerge, and even objects that had been lost for a long time appeared from where they had been searched for most and went dragging along in turbulent confusion behind Melquíades magical irons…..  Jose Arcadio Buendía, whose unbridled imagination always went beyond the genius of nature and even beyond miracles and magic, thought that it would be possible to make use of that useless invention to extract gold from the bowels of the earth….  “ He explored  every inch of the region, even the riverbed, dragging the two iron ingots along and reciting Melquíades incantation aloud.  The only thing he succeeded in doing was to unearth a suit of fifteenth-century armor which had all of its pieces soldered together with rust and inside of which there was the hollow resonance of an enormous stone filled gourd.. When Jose Arcadio Buendia and the four men of his expedition managed to take the armor apart, they found inside a calcified skeleton with a copper locket containing a woman’s hair around its neck"