In 2007, Omar Rodriguez-Graham painted two pieces based on an image from the crime news report, depicting the face of a corpse with no skin. Both works bear the same title: Le Cara Robaron (They Stole Her Face), except that the smaller one is drawn in white chalk on black wood, while the other is painted in color with oil on canvas. The framing policy of both pieces is practically identical.
except that the colored one presents a greater play of textures, while the former is more linear and diagrammatic. A quick interpretation of these works should recall that at the core of the statement the artist has maintained since the beginning of his career is the idea that the object of painting is not so much iconography but the pictorial display itself.
