SAw HIM RIDING

2026
Mixed Media, Acrylic on WOOD PANEL
40 × 60 in

Growing up in Haiti, riding horses along the beach was a special experience for children. For a few moments, an ordinary ride could feel heroic and powerful.

There was something enormous about that feeling, especially as a Black child—to see yourself as strong, beautiful and capable of being the hero. On that horse, you could feel larger than the world around you.

There was also a romantic quality to these moments—the horse, the ocean, the light, and the freedom of being a child. Everything felt bigger and more beautiful than life.

This painting is about that feeling: the confidence of believing in the inevitability of your own possibility. A child riding beside the water, carrying his dreams with him and believing that whatever he could imagine, he could become.