Statement

   Photographs of Spiritually infused objects, still life's evocative of magic rites and rituals and referencing shrines and altars to obscure deities. Images of a shamanic figure weaving through a personalized interior landscape reminiscent of the European colonial portraits of native peoples, except instead of the fake opulent European style backdrops, there is crushed burlap and the subject is the artist.

   Installations revolving around political, personal, spiritual and cultural issues. One involving the cross and its negative uses with Christianity in the conquest and colonization of non-white peoples. Another installation work was a dinner prepared for Ancestral spirits with the food, drinks and even the cigars that they love to smoke. The audience was invited to sit at the table with the Ancestors, sip of the rum, gin and water and smoke the cigars.

   The Throne Series are found chairs that are embellished and dedicated to Ancestral and other spirit forces. Offerings of food, drink and objects that are culturally or spiritually infused are offered upon or around the thrones that are meant to attract or seat the deities.

   Other works are one of a kind artist books and photographic images on metals that explore the possibilities of a 3-dimensional looking images on reflective metals such as copper.

   One recent body of work deals with the exploration of Jamaican culture via the genre of photographic portraiture. Many individuals from the district of Bamboo in the Parish of St. Ann in Jamaica were photographed and some of their statements recorded with the images. The social life of the district, the odd assortment of individuals that revolve around the small country store and the stories they tell about their lives in Jamaica. This photographic project is accompanied with video footage. The work was as much about my interactions with the locals as it was about documentary portraiture.

   In 1998 I was chosen to represent Jamaica at the Sao Paulo Biennial, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In November of 2000 I will once again represent Jamaica this occasion is the seventh Havana Biennial in Havana, Cuba. In 2001 Arthur Simms, Keith Morrison and myself represented Jamaica by presenting the first Jamaica Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy.

   A work that has been traveling since 1998 is a kinetic sculptural installation titled Winged Evocations: A Meditation on Flight & Divinity. This work that wasfunded by the Allen Memorial Art Museum in Oberlin, Ohio. It is scheduled for one final exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Oct. 2003 as part ofa group exhibition on Artists who have worked with flight as a subject.