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The banana tree is a major source of nutrient for many people all around the world and
Trinidad is no different in that regard. It is used in food preparation for specialized foods
reserved for the Christmas holiday season, pastelle, and in the preparation of preserved
sweets such as sugar cake. It is also substituted as a plate for Indian wedding feasts, one of
the must have experiences of any Trinidadian, a native of a multicultural society. It is
widespread, accessible, and right in my back yard. Its paper-like texture made me think of
creating a paper-like drawing in space. From there, the sculpture evolved into a multi-media
free-standing sculpture that was composed of: cloth, dried banana leaves, flour bags (burlap
sack), iron bedhead, thread, and glue.
I am hyper aware and sensitive of the gender-based violence and the increase of
femicides in Trinidad and Tobago. It is the worst that I have ever known it to be since I was
born - protests in the midst of covid, a state funeral, missing girls, teens - and even
Trinidadian celebrity Cardi B used her platform to shed light on this additional pandemic that
is taking place. I have often paralleled the treatment of women to the treatment of the earth.
These issues, prevalent worldwide, are the major themes of the work.
In Nigeria, El Anatsui raises environmental themes in his work such as, Earth Shedding
its Skin, 2019. The medium and concept both refer to the exploitation and raping of the
earth’s structure due to human interference and disrespect.
The mountains in Trinidad have always been a source of captivation and inspiration for
me. The concept of pareidolia (/pɛraɪˈdoʊliə/, /pɛriː-/) comes to mind here – the tendency for
incorrect perception of a stimulus as an object, pattern or meaning known to the observer – as
I have always associated some mountains as looking like a sleeping woman. Artemisia
Gentileschi, Venus and Cupid, 1625, stood out as one of the paintings of sleeping women
who are in the presence of someone else whether knowingly or unknowingly.
With these thoughts, research and dialogues of images, parallels, cross referencing art history
and contemporary artworks, I conceptualized making an abstracted form of a sleeping female
figure.
I turned to traditional Carnival, mas making and characters and looked at the Pierrot
Grenade. A descendant and evolutionary character of the 16th c French Pierrot, the Pierrot
Grenade is a learned, sometimes violent, social commentator who dresses in rags attached to
burlap sack cloth, with bells and tins and pebbles. He walks the street in carnival surrounded
by warrior women who defend him from other Pierrot Grenades. The layering of rags onto
the costume was applied to the way in which I attached the fig leaves, after sticking them
together with glue in bunches, onto the burlap sack cloth.
The burlap sack used were “Country Pride” flour bags, a flour manufacturing company in
Trinidad and Toabgo. Everything about the sculpture, from the process to the materials,
played with the traditional, misogynistic ideas of what the role of the woman is: to make
bread, nourish the family, sew, and be accessible and readily available to her husband in the
bedroom. Thus, the use of the flour bags, the incorporation of cloth, the work is sewn (by
sewing machine and by hand), and the incorporation of the bedhead.
The challenge for this piece was to make it a free-standing sculpture. The initial
conception was to use dried banana leaves alone to make a hanging, installation of an
abstracted female form. In wanting to incorporate these various aspects of all the things a
woman is “supposed” to be and do, it developed my ideas of sewing, including cloth and the
readymade bedhead.
I put a camera on a flatcar and had the Mac push it up the Climb - a long grade to the second level. We start at the sinister docks of Cliffport, pass the crowded platform, and then begin a long ascent close to the sheetrock cliffs. Watch for Waldo at the turn, followed by a witch (she's almost invisible), an astronaut and a sprite where the sky turns strange. Then we flash past the monastery of misbehaving monks and get a partial overview of the layout before turning into the 2D burg of Puzzle and its oddball denizens. From there, we trundle past a lynch mob attempting to deal with the illegal alien problem, then pass the strange but friendly crowd outside the (unfinished) Alpine Hotel before reaching Apex.
Wheels: MRR Ground Force GF6
Wheels Size: 19x9.5
Wheel Finish: Gloss Black
Tires: 245/35/19 Kumho Ecsta
Suspension: Tein 1.3" Drop
Falcon 2000LX EC-MRR still wearing the same basic colours of TC-LIA as when I last saw this. Departing to Barajas
Steel City Hobbies sponsors the 2008 Snowbird Nationals again this year, but with a twist. Owner of SCH, Michael Rooney, has been producing the video portion of the Snowbirds for the last four years. Last year as well as this year have been production shoots for a documentary on R/C Car Carpet racing called "Carpet Racers". The film is slated to be release sometime mid to late 2008. Superior Hobbies was the official shop on-site again this year as they converted two rooms to make up a nice hobby shop. For more information with pictures and captions, check out www.steelcityhobbies.com.
4 LAR! ;-) Mexican River Rocks adding the Zen-essence of my Mexican Zen Garden in the back corner of my house. Just beyond the rocks is the new drain leading to new drainage pipes installed over the past two weekends. Lots of digging that was done by my handy man. See before photo here.
Middle East Airlines (MEA) Airbus A320-232 OD-MRR is climbing out of runway 18 in Frankfurt.
MSN 3837 has had its first flight on 10.03.09 with the test registration F-WWBJ and was delivered to MEA on 09.04.09.
The jet is powered by 2x IAE V2527-A5 turbofans and has a cabin layout with 24x Business and 102x Economy Class seats.
This is flight ME218 to Beirut (BEY).
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