I'll Be Waiting for You in Havana

Mangoes and Sunlight

Year: 2026
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 31 × 39 in · 80 × 100 cm
Series: I'll Be Waiting for You in Havana

It's about what I always come back to: the good life is right here, right now — in small aesthetic pleasures, in ripe fruit caught in the light, in shadows that fall just so, in smells you can almost taste. It's also about Havana — summer Havana, hot and humid. Mango season brings sudden rain, and then the sun returns as if nothing happened. And Cuban mangoes are the best in the world. I found this pitcher and bowl in a Havana antique shop. Just imagine: some Cuban señora, on a summer morning in 1924, in her apartment on the corner of San Lázaro and Basarrate, placing ripe mangoes into this very bowl and watching the bright light from the window fall across the fruit...

FruitMangoHouseStill lifeHavanaSun

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