CURRENTS
“...the Caribbean is not a common archipelago, but a meta-archipelago...and as meta-archipelago it has the virtue of having neither a boundary nor a center. Thus the Caribbean flows outward past the limits of its own sea with a vengeance and...may be found on the outskirts of Bombay, near the murmuring shores of Gambia...at a Balinese Temple, in an old Bristol pub...in a windmill beside the Zuider Zee, at a cafe in a barrio of Manhattan...”
— Antonio Benítez-Rojo
Invoking the continuous movement and polyrhythm of the ocean, the oceanic imaginary revisions time and space fluidly; foregrounding rhizomatic interconnectivity (between waters, land, people) and challenging linear epistemologies. Like the character of the archipelago, the waters surrounding them are in flux, where each cyclical repetition is paradoxically changing, varied, and dynamic, opening and unfolding new possibilities of relation. In ‘Currents’ I have combined images of a lake in Canada to recreate the various waters of beaches in Trinidad & Tobago.
