Bread


A project that I just suggested to CAFRA as a money making endeavour has to do with one of the many conversations we shared at one of the meetings. I was listening to some of the ladies talk about men who are put up for maintainance who do everything within their power to, they believe 'punish' the woman. One such tactic is to not pay their obligated amount. They do not see it as hurting their child, and so, the idea to do a project to raise money for the cause came about.
I kept hearing the word bread winner. I instantly thought that it would be interesting to get women to make bread in a variety of shapes. Shapes like earth Mother, symbols of fertility and other images of strong female forms. I contacted a friend who has one of the oldest bakeries on the island, and she is excited about the project. Hopefully I will be able to post the results here when we finally decide on how many pieces to do, whether we shall auction the pieces and other details.

New Works and New ways

Over the last few months I have been working on two Tumblrs to supplement my blogs. Sexypinkon.tumblr.com and theworkingsofadele.tumblr.com.
One of the goals that I set out this year is to continue to do as much of my work that I can, but also to have the work shown. Already I have something that should be seen in New York and locally at the National Museum.
All of this has me anxious to create much more, and I am also working towards getting something published.
The Mensew project is on hold for the moment. But I shall also continue to revisit it. as I see it as very important.

Stain! Sexuality in women and girls

This project began as texts that I created dimensionally. Now it is expanding to include some experimental wire and stocking sculptures. Images shall accompany this post soon.

I am also working on the following piece,


Lighting the Darkness - New Project for November

The stark contrast between where a concept begins and where it ends always amazes me. This project started with a very grand idea. It demanded that I contact an architect and a land surveyor. I hope to actually see that idea realised someday. In the meanwhile, this new project, Lighting the Darkness is an installation piece that initially was meant to be made in bamboo and prototyped with the plan to create several hundred copies. Every bamboo manipulator I contacted made promises and then did not get back to me.
So,I decided to rethink the idea.
In the next few weeks, I shall be ding my own prototypes on Lighting the Darkness and will be documenting it here.

Patrimony post mortem

The show is now installed at The Space until the 25th of July. It was a labour of love to create. I wanted to work with wire and embroidery to produce a sketch, dimensional coat of arms. The title of the show makes clear my intention to create an object that speaks of the islands of Trinidad and Tobago at this time. The use of the coat of arms is specific to our nation and the loose threads give a sense of wasting away. The deliberate combination of neat and rough textures speak fo the conflict we all personally face in being what our motto suggests, "Together we aspire, together we achieve."

One of the best tag lines in advertising ever created was the one for Nike - Just do it.
safe space is fully behind this three word battle cry.
A number of women have asked me about starting a women's group, and I have balked at the idea. I am against joining committees and organizations. I find them oddly counter productive in my experience. Everyone means well, but nobody corrects what they are in the group to really change. The whole thing gets mired in red tape. It is with that attitude that blogger is a godsend. I wanted to start something that I did not have to lead per say. The objective was to create a place, a safe space where women like myself could talk and just say whatever we wanted to say, unencumbered by all the real and perceived pressures of our tiny island society. I also wanted a place where anyone could gripe and question our wierd and crazy island, and I tell you this place is a wierd place. It is hard to get a handle on trinidad and Tobago. I marvel at how the islands inhabitants justify this space. So safe space is born and I look forward to seeing it grow. I want safe space to be like a relay race, several people will be given the opportunity to carry the baton to wherever they need to run. Some runners will be sprinters and others may be long distance runners a,d some may be triatheletes. I am looking forward to seeing where this journey shall lead us all.