Sketches and flamboyant

Before there was a wall, there was a table. A cup of coffee, markers, a few sheets with flowers and leaves in blue and yellow, and beside them the real flowers of the flamboyant tree, still fresh. What went on the wall first lay on the table. This is the earliest photo in the series of For the Love of God, the mural Francis Sling made from 2024 to 2026 at Landhuis Rondeklip, Curaçao. On his old website this photo opened the section about the poem and the music that belong to the work. Put the finished wall beside these sketches and you see how much of the paper survived: the same flowers, only many times bigger.