My narrative on Grenada’s ShortKnee started in 2005. My work was featured in two conference papers presented by Dr Susan Mains: in 2005 Small Island Art –Potential Untapped at the Ninth Interdisciplinary Congress of the Society for Caribbean...
David Alfaro Siqueiros was a Mexican social painter who depicted the working class’ struggles, social and racial injustice and economic hardship, satirical scenes of social or political protest. As I search for my own artistic voice, my ShortKnee translations are...
Currently I am translating and reinterpreting other artists’ works on war, migration, desolation and isolation, in particular with works featuring pierrot-type figures, as part of a vigorous self-directed visual study of our present day ShortKnee. This character is a...
The work I call Tebou (Carib word for stone) is a posterboard triptych referencing another untitled work by Cuban artist Santiago Olazábal, of a spirit in a stone breathing on a man. Here the ShortKnee seeks and receives the breadth from a stone spirit, against a red...
My artwork Tres Chantuelle, shows the ShortKnee as puppeteer, my translation of a 2007 untitled serigraphy on handmade paper containing the words Agbo elebo, by Cuban artist Santiago Olazábal, and a nod to my 2007 work Gallowed Chantuelle, a mobile installation of...
