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| by David Saintus |
My Thanksgiving weekend has been just wonderful! Family, kids, games, good food and drink, music, laughing and buying my first piece of art with Francis. This untitled piece by David Saintus, a great friend of Fran's mother caught my eye and dragged me into it last Friday. David is a local artist in Spring Valley, Rockland County and he periodically brings his pieces over to Fran's house for him mom to look at and purchase whenever he is town. I have admired the pieces of his she has hanging in her house for years. I was so glad to be there when he showed up with his artwork so I could ask him a little about how he worked, but I didn't get a chance to ask him too much because I was too busy looking at all the canvases and wood stretched paintings on the floor and lying against furniture, bursting with lush color and beauty. He gave Francis and I and incredible deal and we took it. We split the cost and took the paining home that day.
I've always had a thing for paintings done on a black canvas. In this one, the traditional country landscape sen often in Haitian painting like these is set against a stunning autumnal midday scene. You can see the light of the sun just beginning to fade in the background and all of these women who appear to have been working in the fields are coming home in the foreground or disappearing further of in the background, going home beyond the horizon. It's just breathtaking the way the colors in the painting interact with light. In the morning with all the light streaming in through the living room windows this morning, it was just brilliant. We plan on framing it soon but for now, it looks amazing just as it is.
When I have weekends this good, I have to say, I cannot even fathom that I have to return to that office. I doesn't ever seem real to me. The only thing that feels real to me now is the smiling laughing faces of my family on Fran's side, all the good food we ate, the great laughs and conversations we had and the love in between.
