“While visiting Havana, Cuba, in 2017, I came upon this young man sitting on a sunlit piazza immersed in writing in a journal,” says Anne Hightower-Patterson. “I was immediately drawn to the warmth of the light creating shadows across his face and bouncing off of his dreadlocks. I quickly took a few photos, and upon my return home, I created this painting in my studio.”
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