Felix D'Eon

Diary ~ A Short Trip Home

June, 2006

25 June 2006

I flew home for a couple of weeks, not long after getting back from Tennessee. I hadn't meant too - I was anxious to get back to painting, but my mom called and said she was having problems with my little brother Abdel, and wanted me to come home. Plus, it was his birthday, so how could I refuse? I had a wonderful time at my childhood home in Pacific Palisades, like always. I hung out in the pool, rode a skateboard with Abdel and his friends (its a little embarrasing, but he loves it when I do that), and hung out with my other two sisters Rosali (who is 17 and still at home) and Isabel, who is 25 and lives in Hollywood. And of course I tried to spend as much time at the beach as possible, but really, the time was about my family, so most of my trip was spent with them. Luckily my mother, older sister and I all share the same taste. Consequently, it is easy to prevail upon them to take me to museums, and I am happy to bow to my mothers preference for the opera or L.A.'s various botanical gardens, her favorite thing to do. Below is a photo of Abdel and I taken at the opera on this last trip - we went to a beautiful performance of "La Traviata," an abuse that Abdel rather dislikes, but gracefully submits to. According to my mother, much more gracefully when I am there.

Otherwise, the trip was uneventful. My mother made me some new and beautiful clothes (a favorite bribery technique of hers to get me to visit - she is a great designer. She made the sweater I am wearing in the photo above, which is hard to see in the photo, unfortunately. It has strange pockets in unexpected places and wierd seams and stitching - its very avante-garde.) But in any case, I am happy to be home again in San Francisco and itching to paint again. Its been too long. I drew a little on my trip - I painted portraits of my mother and siblings, and did some drawings of my mom and sisters in her newest designs like always. I also drew Rosali in a Civil War dress which my mom made, as part of her new passion for Civil War reenactments, a diversion I never imagined for my family. But they all love it. I think the drawing came out rather sweet.

 

In any case, I am home again and will be focusing on the website and my artwork for the forseeable future.