Like
military sentrys these vertical vessels are inspired by the dry
stacked stone walls that line roads - flint stone in particular has
wonderful faceted surfaces that are crisp, hard, masculine while
simultainously flowing sensual and organic.
Jamaica's national motto ‘out of many one people’ inspired a series of minature heads mounted on stone or wood. This series exhibited at the National Gallery represents cliches of our diverse ethnic population.
I am Jamaican. A few years after returning home from an inspirational working experience in Japan, I needed to explore what for me is indiginous. The exhibition included
furniture, sculpted slabs of wood integrating wood fired clay into
human scaled sculptures. See article in publications.
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