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Puzzling 3 puzzles and 3 photo prints on canvas, 30”x40” Dreaming well with this work involves visually processing something that you can’t see. In March of this year I was diagnosed with type II diabetes and since then, everyday feels like solving a puzzle. Whether dealing with high and low levels of glucose, or wondering if I’m feeling side effects of the medication or symptoms of having…

This series of paintings, started in 2024, reflect on the nature of memory and perception as well as looking at the unposed, unstaged, common scenes in Grenada. Loose gestural strokes give impressions of scenes without highly detailed or rendered forms – much like how our brains remember things. “Drinks Truck” 48″36″, Ink and Acrylic on Canvas, 2024 “Saraka Pots” 30″x40″, Ink and Acrylic on…

Errantry is a visual summation of Édouard Glissant’s concept of the driving force that compels cultures and individuals to seek out the Other in order to complete themselves. Representations of the sea, stars, and nomadism sum up Glissant’s thought, “Sometimes, by taking up the problems of the Other, it is possible to find oneself.”

“Opacité” – 6th Grenada Contemporary

“… restoring liberating, catalysing, and dangerous power to the object, that he gives back the profaned object its dignity of mystery and its radiant force…” Aimé Césaire, Calling the Magician, Haiti-Journal (20 May 1944) on Andre Breton My work for the 6th Grenada Contemporary, based on Aimé Césaire’s, “Calling the Magician” takes a step beyond my work with “Empathy of Place” and explores…

Sea Lungs at the 14th Bienal de la Habana (2022)

Tumble Figures (2020 – 2021)

Here is a collection of work that came out of the life drawing sessions at Art House 473. I moved to working on canvas and domestic as I was unsatisfied with the amount of paper I was using for our short poses (45 seconds, 5, and 10 minutes). I started trying to capture all of the poses in the session on one surface with a variety of media and with different techniques. What resulted were these…

Early Surrealist Drawings (1999)

These are some drawings I had done around 1999. I would have been 15. I’m not sure that I remember exactly what these may have been inspired by other than thinking through forms and surfaces. There was definitely an embrace of speculative potentials in these drawings/drawings of sculptures/installations. Enjoy these throwbacks of a very different time in my art practice!