Growing up in Grenada and moving to Flatbush, Brooklyn I’m very privilege to have directly and indirectly been part of a culture that has given me and the world so much. Black is a constantly shifting social construction and someone who helped me figure an aspect of what that construction meant for me was the honorable Marcus Garvey, who positioned that all Black people are connected world wide. For me that connection exist through cultural productions that can be found wherever black folks exists; The music the fashion how we walk dress eat talk speak etc have been woven into our consciousness centuries ago on the continent and pushed forward through constant reinvention by each new generation. As a larger society we have inherited the idea that many of us have a duty to pay taxes cause we all collectively will benefit from these services. In a capitalist society I believe simply that I owe a cultural tax to the Culture-State that feeds my practice as an artists. It is within this logic that I would like to inaugurate Emelda Barrington/Garvey Trust Fund. For the inaugural year, Alex and Alvaro would like to invite three fashion designers to make outfits for Notting Hill Carnival 2021.
• £30K + £3K for travel and research (up to 5K for those with children)
• Range of services including accountant for taxes, costume marketing, etc
• Travel to Caribbean countries plus accommodation.
(will cover medical testing for covid), additional funds available for travel with children..
• Costumes must be sourced and produced locally and/or in the Caribbean islands
• Must work with craftworkers/labourers in the Caribbean and locally
(wages paid must be comparable to wages of those in UK)
$20 an hour here means $20 an hour to the worker the Caribbean if performing the same labor
• Rent free East london warehouse studio available till sept 2021
• PAY IT FORWARD/The purpose of this Trust is to assist in starting a business.
Additional profits earned from the sale while on the Trust will be taxed accordingly
with the taxes going back directly into the trust to fund the following years awardees.
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While open to ALL black and brown women of color whose ancestor are from the Caribbean the award strongly encourages applicants who are darker skin black woman whose is economical disadvantaged especially as well as Fashion students
MIDDLE WAY TIN – £20
MARY MOTHER OF GOD TIN – £20
MIDDLE WAY ROOM SPRAY – £20
MARY MOTHER OF GOD ROOM SPRAY – £20
CAME ALL THE WAY JUST TO GET FUCKED
2021
MIXED MEDIA ON BURLAP WITH CORRUGATED TIN AND STEEL PAN
173 x 235 x 23.5 cm / 68 ⅛ x 92 ½ x 9 ¼ in
JET PLANE (DT) FEB 2021
2021
MIXED MEDIA ON BURLAP
170 x 170 x 4.5 cm / 66 ⅞ x 66 ⅞ x 1 ¾ in
JET PLANE (DT) MID RIGHT
2021
MIXED MEDIA ON BURLAP
100 x 100 x 4.5 cm / 39 ⅜ x 39 ⅜ x 1 ¾ in
Love After Love
The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
—Derek Walcott
After The Storm
There are so many islands!
As many islands as the stars at night
on that branched tree from which meteors are shaken
like falling fruit around the schooner Flight.
But things must fall, and so it always was,
on one hand Venus, on the other Mars;
fall, and are one, just as this earth is one
island in archipelagoes of stars.
My first friend was the sea. Now, is my last.
I stop talking now. I work, then I read,
cotching under a lantern hooked to the mast.
I try to forget what happiness was,
and when that don’t work, I study the stars.
Sometimes is just me, and the soft-scissored foam
as the deck turn white and the moon open
a cloud like a door, and the light over me
is a road in white moonlight taking me home.
Shabine sang to you from the depths of the sea.
—Derek Walcott
Derek Walcott OBE OCC is a Saint Lucian poet, playwright and writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992 and the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2011. He said, “The Caribbean is not an idyll, not to its natives. They draw their working strength from it organically, like trees, like the sea almond or the spice laurel of the heights.”
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