VESSELS
Vessels expresses the oceanic interrelation between land and sea, rendering the body as vessel to represent fluid metaphors for navigation, circulation, connection, and crossing; deconstructing the land-sea binary through tidalectics of diaspora and relation.
The bodies, depicted as the vessels that traverse symbolic spaces, belong to Caribbean women from my island; refusing the colonial conceit that “masculine movement across [feminized] space produces history,” and symbolizing tidalectic engagements with Caribbean space in a way that is “not overdetermined by the trajectories of western colonization” (Elizabeth DeLoughrey).
