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ShortKnee: Jinn of Maran

ShortKnee: Jinn of Maran

ShortKnee: Jinn of Maran is influenced by El genio del ingenio, a small oil on canvas (14.5 by 12 inches) in the collection of the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan created in 1910 by Puerto Rican artist, Julio Tomás Martínez, considered the pioneer of Surrealism...
ShortKnee: Descendant of a Lost Tribe?

ShortKnee: Descendant of a Lost Tribe?

The ShortKnee masquerade was created post-Emancipation by Grenada’s creolised population to reconnect with an ancestral past. The earliest record of the word ‘ShortKnee’ in Grenada dates back to the 1920s, and references the knee-breeches. Disguised as a traditional...
Grenada ShortKnee: Aroused & Absolut

Grenada ShortKnee: Aroused & Absolut

I have been fascinated by the Rapanui Moai (Easter Island statues) since I came across them almost 40 years ago in, of all things, a comic book. I finally got to see (and touch) one up close, at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History about 10 years ago, and another...