by Suelin | Mar 7, 2012 | Uncategorized
West African masquerade traditions fused with French carnavale elements to produce what is now known in Grenada as the ShortKnee, a masked carnival character wrapped in six and a half yards of vulgar fabric, mirrors, whistles, bells and baby powder -breathtaking in...
by Suelin | Mar 7, 2012 | Uncategorized
2012 – My Chantuelle translations continueChaotic events south of the Sahara and on the streets of Europe, led to a celebration of survival called Carnival, from which, in Grenada the ShortKnee emerged. West African masquerade traditions fused with French carnavale...
by Suelin | Oct 29, 2011 | Uncategorized
Two days before I presented my paper at the Edna Manley Conference in Jamaica, I was invited by Visual Arts Department Chair at the Prep Campus Ms Stacy Holtzman, to do a presentation on the Grenada ShortKnee, to the students of Gulliver Prep School in Coral Gables,...
by Suelin | Oct 29, 2011 | Uncategorized
It all came together at the last minute. The Grenada Arts Council recently hosted Revolution: An art perspective – new works depicting aspects of the Grenada Revolution years 1979-1983, and I had nada. I had previously painted two rabid mongoose...
by Suelin | Jul 10, 2011 | Uncategorized
Grasp of the silk cotton 4These images are influenced by a 1956 lithograph signed in pencil by Mexican painter José David Alfaro Siqueiros, simply titled Figura, depicting an unsettling image of a figure in a tree.Grasp of the silk cotton 5It is this unsettlement that...
