Title: D’antan
Date: 2025
From: Port-au-Prince
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 16 × 20 inches
Artist: Guesilhomme Jean Batiste
Description:
In D’antan (“Memories of Yesterday”), Guesilhomme Jean Batiste captures the quiet poetry of everyday life through a still life composition of familiar Haitian objects — a coal iron, a transistor radio, an oil lamp, and a coffee cup. These artifacts, rendered with his signature realism and soft chiaroscuro, evoke a world shaped by resilience, simplicity, and nostalgia.
Each object seems to hum with memory: the radio recalls evenings of shared stories, the iron speaks of care and diligence, and the lamp glows faintly with the warmth of home. In this intimate tableau, Guesilhomme pays homage to the tools and rituals that have illuminated Haitian households for generations, inviting the viewer to pause and honor the beauty of the ordinary.
Title: D’antan
Date: 2025
From: Port-au-Prince
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 16 × 20 inches
Artist: Guesilhomme Jean Batiste
Description:
In D’antan (“Memories of Yesterday”), Guesilhomme Jean Batiste captures the quiet poetry of everyday life through a still life composition of familiar Haitian objects — a coal iron, a transistor radio, an oil lamp, and a coffee cup. These artifacts, rendered with his signature realism and soft chiaroscuro, evoke a world shaped by resilience, simplicity, and nostalgia.
Each object seems to hum with memory: the radio recalls evenings of shared stories, the iron speaks of care and diligence, and the lamp glows faintly with the warmth of home. In this intimate tableau, Guesilhomme pays homage to the tools and rituals that have illuminated Haitian households for generations, inviting the viewer to pause and honor the beauty of the ordinary.
