"Ten Years After" was one of my favorite rock/blues band during the 90´s. During 1997 I spend a couple of months in the rainforest of Perú, in the city of "Iquitos", and I have very good memories from that year. Lots of new birds for me in one of the most amazing places I have ever been. lost of stories to be told from that couple of months. One day, during one of my outings in the rainforest I was lucky to watch a couple of greenwing macaws (Ara chloroptera) perched in a branch over the river. During a good amount of time, I enjoyed in silence the observaction of this superb birds -the escence of tropics for me- with my old binoculars. The face of one of the macawas was tinted with yellow and I supposed that it was due to a feast of tropical fruits. I retained that image on my memories and a couple of year later, in 1990, I painted this portrait in Spain. Today, ten years after, both the macaws and the music of that great band are still on my mind ;-)
