On Sunday the 6th of May I felt sick, I felt in the middle of a fog, I was tired, tired of the black painting with a lady dressed in white sitting on a red couch - she used to sit in a hotel room in Provence .
I painted that room out, it was the past.
How lost I felt, lost in a sea. I kept seeing our boat Sean Seamour II plowing through the waves - on and on and on. They were crossing the Atlantic and I was sitting here waiting.
From my window enormous trees were towering over the house, black and menacing, the ground rolling up an down. I painted the house facing the woman, trees and rolling ground in the background.
On the seventh I painted a white road through and past the house, disappearing in the distance, it looked like a gigantic wave.
That afternoon I learned that the boat had sunk, swallowed under a big white wave where (s)he now rests three miles on the bottom of the Ocean, O Sean. The crew was saved, they would all come home, the waiting was over.
Mayke & Jean Pierre de Lutz
Camp de la Suyère, 83680 La Garde Freinet, France
Web: www.maykesassen.com
post tropical storm Andrea, the final log of s/v Sean Seamour II can be read at
http://artseaprovence.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2007/6/9/3011519.html
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