by Suelin | Mar 7, 2012 | Uncategorized
The first time I read Hemingway’s Cuban novel was at school, a long long time ago. By the time Hemingway (re)crossed my path, I had begun to feel creatively evaporated. Enter Caboverde’s neocubist fish images, and Hemingway’s words bubbling in my head, I began...
by Suelin | Mar 7, 2012 | Uncategorized
Last year, I re-read The Old Man and the Sea and reacquainted myself with Roel Caboverde’s rural fishing images. Caboverde’s neocubitst paintings and Hemingway’s words inspired new visual and written content based on my childhood memories of fishing, off docks, rocks...
by Suelin | Mar 7, 2012 | Uncategorized
Last year, I re-read The Old Man and the Sea. The first time I read Hemingway’s Cuban novel was at school, a long long time ago. By the time Hemingway (re)crossed my path, I had gone without a creative spark long enough that I felt in truth, as if it had leaked...
by Suelin | Mar 7, 2012 | Uncategorized
A plain white towel covers the entire head of the ShortKnee. This headdress is referred to as being ‘in sheep’s head, a simpler and economically preferred version of a starch-stiffened and wired cloth headdress, a ‘crown’ that is referred to as ‘in goat’s head’. Both...
by Suelin | Mar 7, 2012 | Uncategorized
My exploration of Grenada’s carnival icon, the ShortKnee focuses on translations of other artists’ works featuring pierrot figures, or those dealing with war, migration, desolation and isolation, elements which birthed an unique and iconic masquerade. Chaotic events...
