Matthieu, from nature

Detail of a portrait painted from life.
Mathieu worked as a receptionist in the hotel where we lived, in the French city of Arles.
Mathieu was actually from Normandy. And he lived in Arles because he studied at the university as a photo artist (if I understood correctly), because in Arles for free … We spoke in English. Mathieu was convinced that he was a socialist, almost a communist … I wanted to explain to him that socialism is terrible and tried to tell how we were forcibly driven to Komsomol meetings. I dont know if he understood anything …