Painting by Cheryle Rome-Beatty: In the Time of Siesta

Spain at midday, with the shutters closed and the sun still trying.

This painting, In The Time of Siesta, is oil on paper by Cheryle Rome-Beatty, from Spain, about 2019, signed and dated on the back. The siesta, the traditional Spanish pause during the heat of the day, gives the work its title and perhaps its mood. A large black egg shape hangs in a field of saturated yellow. A curved band of dark rungs wraps a white form at left, and thin lines run down the sheet like cracks or contours. Thirty-five inches wide and twenty-seven and a half high.

Nobody in it appears to be awake.