Welcome to the series called "the evolution of the artwork" which takes the viewer through the creative process and evolutionary stages of the works of art being created by modern Latino artist Victor-Hugo.

This series allows the viewer to enter the artist’s studio and mind to see what the artist faced as he sat in front of the canvas and how Victor-Hugo altered the images as the beautiful chaos surrounding him unfolded, exploding onto the canvas.

The first entry in this series is "the jolly couple". It shows how a seemingly simple addition such as the Spanish text which translated in English reads:

"Embrace me, and at that moment I realized it would be our last embrace."

Completely alters the appearance and meaning of the art piece. Victor-Hugo painted this as Israel and Hezbollah fought a bloody war in Lebanon which many feared would lead to World War III. Tropical storm Ernesto approached the high rise he lived in and nobody had done anything to safeguard the residents despite their pleas and Victor-Hugo had ended his year and a half intimate relationship with his muse Jennifer.

"Before I put those words on the left hand side of the painting, I stared at the piece in my solitude and confusion. I realized that something was missing. That something I felt was closure. I had been listening to Julio Iglesias on my stereo when his song "Abrázame" entered my brain, with all its beauty and meaning, like mental silk.

I cried as I remembered my final embrace with Jennifer, before she walked out the door and out of my life. She had asked me for a hug. Not realizing it would be our final embrace, I held her haphazardly, because at the time, my mind was consumed with the work she had called me away from for the embrace.

At first, it felt more like a distraction to me, than an embrace. I could feel her sobbing as her head rested on my shoulder. I held her closer then.

Not until the moment when I sat alone in front of the canvas listening to Julio Iglesias sing one of his favorite songs, by his own admission, did I realize how this art piece should be completed. And so it was."