My visit to the UK was to attend and present a paper at a conference in Leeds. My paper on the Everydayness of Visual, accompanied by about nine handcoloured sketches, was part of Session Eight, on Day One of the Narrating the Caribbean Nation conference hosted...
My April visit to the UK was to attend and present a paper at a conference in Leeds. But as we well brought up West Indian people know, you do not go empty handed. My ‘gift’ shall we say, was to do a bit of community service, and that is how ShortKnee art met the...
Luanne Frank (r) and me at the conferenceMarch 22: I presented a paper titled Our Present Image: The Grenada ShortKnee, Instrument of History at the Negritud Afro-Latin American Studies 3rd International Conference in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, as part of the panel on...
In Grenada the ShortKnee emerged from West African Egungun masquerade traditions fused with French carnavale elements, a masked carnival character wrapped in six and a half yards of vulgar fabric, mirrors, whistles, bells and baby powder. The...
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...
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...
