Musings on musing

It has been a while since I posted photos of new work. As of March, I had to pack up my studio on E Griffin St. It was a mutual decision between me and the artist I was renting from. I will be moving to a new space soon and will continue working. As for right now, my studio is packed up in a storage unit.

With this time of creative abstinence I’m spending time contemplating my content and expression.

I visited a Hung Liu exhibition that was in Dallas last week and was thoroughly inspired.

Someone recently made a comment to me that they thought that I am disconnected from my primary content of Afro-Caribbean images and motifs. This has been a lot to process. While I left Grenada 9 years ago now, my 17 years in the Caribbean still represent my fundamental cultural perspective. However well I may acclimatize or accommodate US culture, adaptation is not to be confused with ethno-cultural amnesia.

So what do I make? I am culturally and thematically heterogeneous in a field that prizes focus and singularity. I have painted themes of music, personalities, portraits, and figures. My philosophies and artistic direction change without warning. Currently I am straddling two styles. One, using oil paint and chemicals to create a transient effect of the human expression, and the other, a more street art style approach using adapted photos and creating stencils.

My multiplicity begs pause.

As I sit, absent of materials, I look for a muse and I am without.

I have a solo show slated in Barbados for March of 2012 and I have a lot of work to do. On top of that the questions of my content and even my market linger.