Tuesday, April 29, 2025

One year ago in Paris!

 


Pete Sinjin and me beside the river
Seine in Paris one year ago. It was so
wonderful to meet him, and to realize that we
already had a connection. Check out his work.
It's amazing.
Photo
Steven van Schaik © 2024

I feel so lucky in my life in general, because wonderful things like this happen.
Steven and I were walking along the Seine in Paris last year, and an artist (Pete
Sinjin in the photo) was measuring with his paint brush in the air the scene
he was painting.  I started to laugh because I don't know how to do that measuring
thing, and I don't do it. So we started to talk in our best effort at French, until Pete
said his name.  Then I realized that there was a piece on Instagram about a critic
who was not kind to Pete Sinjin.  I was one of many people who wrote
and said that the writer was ridiculous because Pete Sinjin's work is fabulous.
And it is!

So Pete asked for a photo and Steven took this.  It makes me happy just looking at
this happy picture, and Pete and I have been friends ever since.

Of course the painting he was creating that day was awesome, and so are all of his pieces. 

Have a loving your life day!




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