Art of the Image
A collective exhibition held at CHI Studios, Port of Spain, Trinidad
25th July - 25th August 2018
Artist Statement
Into the Darkness
Where does beauty live? To whom does she show her face?
This series is an accumulation of images created in Trinidad and abroad over the past decade.
I look for the unexpected beauty and energy in the everyday mundane and the ghastly, and through my art, I hope to provoke people to see the beauty that resides in the darkness and the shadows all around them.
Context and personal history have the ability to find or obscure beauty. For instance, a jab molassie is a traditionally ghoulish character. Upbringing and experience condition us to be afraid of the mud, paint, oil, and having to “pay the devil”. But strip away the cultural insight and our innate fears, and the devil can become an angel. Similarly, concrete piles driven into the sand at the mouth of the river may be insignificant. But add in childhood memories of carefree days at the beach and the smell of the salty air, and they transform into a memorial to loved ones we have lost.
My process is to look beyond the conspicuous; to remain engaged with my subject long enough to see the beauty in its geometry, in the energy of its movement or in the solitude of its stillness; that ephemeral moment when the light gets in.


Fingers strained,
Reaching,
On the tips of bloodied toes she reaches.
Beyond our shores,
A water lily blossoms,
In a land of Dragons.
Longing for Home
Trinidad, 2016

The monsters
They live only in our dreams
Awake!
For there are no monsters
Masquerade of Fear
Trinidad, 2016


Near river's edge,
But cannot drink.
We strain to see,
What bright future brings
Absolution
China, 2010

We float between light and shadow
This dance you see
Grinning teeth or hidden hand
I am what I want me to be
The Rigour of Being
Trinidad, 2016


The tear rips through the page
Cutting across the beautiful words
Until there are but only
Shreds of paper in the wind
Rictus Befallen
Portugal, 2011


Haunted by these ghosts
I will not allow myself to be
A master of my destiny
Forever to walk this path
Forever to walk this path
A master of my destiny
I will not allow myself to be
Haunted by these ghosts
Of Things Passed and Yet to Come
Trinidad, 2018