The SERIES
Trinidad – 29 September 2023
“ the architect of impossible physics ’’
For the last two months, emails between myself and a trusted wordsmith, my attempts to create an introduction, a text to this work, resulted in thousands of words later, I tried to justify the effort because of the three decade time frame and the apparent complexities of the imagery. I scrapped the idea and now prefer this lighter and shorter version to open the site.
I have made these works ‘’in betweeny’’ the everyday dealings, livings, struggles, rituals and joys since 1987, the first drawing a 25 by 3 foot scroll of paper, now very yellowed, is hidden away in its own tightly closed wooden box in my studio. An explosion went off in my head with that piece of work, the beginning of this language, this text in drawing, and I wondered that I should not stop what I was experiencing, which was an effortless unfolding of subconscious ideas. This story has been heavily influenced by a study in yoga and of course my own fascination and study in drawing, the activity being integral to my studio business as a painter over the same time period since I left art school in the UK, and returned to Trinidad in 1985.
Square, dot, circle, chevron, triangle, cross, spiral, the seven basic indices for the construction of these drawings, these elements of the drawing equations and sequences forming what is an endless intuitive geometry. That might sound fluffy, but what else can I say after nearly forty years at the desk. The work is not about a lot of things, no history, personal joys or grieving, no gender or racial undertones or overtones, no religious, social, environmental or cultural agendas. When I started I did not feel as if I had anything to say, or express, none of that, no desire to specifically express any thing, which I really found quite liberating. I am, so, allowed to make it all up as I have progressed over the years. I know this kinda pisses some people off, individuals often needing reasons to validate their viewing questions and impressions. I have put these drawings up precisely because I think viewers might enjoy looking into these surfaces and thinking for themselves concerning what they would see and experience.
Over the years, myself, close friends, observers have called it channeling, downloading, meditation and it is perhaps all of that which is up for debate and interpretation, a discussion which could be fun. When I was a child I wanted to become an architect but was later daunted by the need for mathematical qualifications to be admitted to study, seems I got my wish even if I had to make it up.
I propose and suppose that if anyone reading this or coming across this site is more interested in the work, that an email, phone and or video call is probably a good idea, when this series started it was only a phone call or a letter allowing direct communication and inquiry. I am open to a chat and further dialogue.
A first edition or set was exhibited at the Sao Paolo Bienal in 2002, which was a great portfolio and career validating experience, but since then for many reasons my life trajectory remained more locally focused, but the sessions at the desk never stopped, and the surfaces, the visual stories of the architect have continued and become quite involved and more intensive.
I have had some difficulty piecing together a resume of my artistic and life activity, spanning painting, an extensive land management portfolio, social activism, exhibitions, teaching and just being human. I put the work forward and can trace the personal associative memories, history and stories back from the imagery.
Drawing 23
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Drawing 20
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Drawing 21
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Drawing 22
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The Docking Station
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The Rock Machine
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Two devices for the repair and restoration of angels’ wings
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Behavioural corrective device
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Eb16
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Eb15
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Eb14
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Eb13
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Adam’s flag signalling the arrival of the Vamanas
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Conception
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Return to Phoenix Park
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Eb9
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Eb8
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”the jumbie killer” – series
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Courtyard
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The Birthing Chamber I
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Landscape
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@ Sans Souci
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Observation point at Sans Souci
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Gaia Compass
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