Peoples to the sun

Tony painted Peoples to the sun when he was in an abstract mood in a cold garage/atelier he rented in 1998 in Antwerp. It is symbolic for reaching for the sun, for the Indians trying to survive. The darker colored face is one of the iconographies he used for me in a certain period. On the canvas you'll see the real sun and the black sun. Julia Kristeva wrote a book 'Soleil Noire', Black Sun, about depression. I am afraid nobody knew how depressed he was at times, and how he managed to render that in vibrant colors full of life. He transformed the darkness in light while painting.