Mixed media on canvas

36” x 36” x 1.5”

2023

Sydney Series

I knew it would be impossible to capture her spirit in just one painting. Sydney reminds me of myself as a young lady. But Sydney has almost no boundaries to her expressions of life.  Her sense of freedom is what I admire most. An African American Haitian Guyanese young adult living in California. I was lucky to photograph her at one of the saddest moments in her life, days after she lost, her mother to cancer.  In the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge on a fidget bright day, she posed for me. With the wind in her hair and that familiar smile on her face, at that moment, her grief disappeared, and her essence shined through. These paintings are my interpolations of her beauty. The black contours of her form overlaid with the rich brilliant colors of the rainbow that emanate the beauty and vivacious spirit of Sydney.