This is a portrait of my 75 year old father in law. The past and present are clear on his face.
Only the near future peers a little at us from the dark side, the rest is cloaked and unknown.

I was allways intrigued by Mannerism (an artistic current born out of the opposition to the late
Renaissance)and its emphasis on asymetry, light & shadow play, crisp "naturalistic" colors and
distorsion. Early baroque painters also played with the same tools.

Janus is the two faced Roman God of the past and the future. He is usually shown with a light and a
dark face, back to back, looking in opposite directions suggesting fair-mindness beside the
obvious past/future metaphor.