I have to say that I honestly enjoyed this show, to some extent. I especially liked Daniel's works and its reference to geological forms and I entirely enjoyed his color pallette. And the fact that everyone from Canada had some sort of vibrant "tropical" colors in their work was interesting, in that it stemed from some sort of cultural impact of Barbados. I thought that the barbadian artists did a good job too, but was dissapointed in one of their works. It just seemed to me like she just takes everyone's ideas - and not even subtly. I was very dissapointed in her body of work some personal reasons included. I plan to discuss these in class today.
I found their blog page here so I wud share the link of it i includes some of the processes and their work areas>>>>>> http://artconnections-barbados.blogspot.com/
Monday, January 31, 2011
A Place Where the Soul Can Rest
Well, I finished reading this short story on Saturday while taking a break from work and I must say it was a good read. At first I was overwhelmed by her - what I considered- overuse of the word "patriarch" it bacame annoying after a while. I especially enjoyed when she spoke about her childhood and being polite to everyone in the neighbourhood whether you liked it or not. That brought me back to my childhood.
"Walking by someone's house, seeing them on their porch, and failing to speak was to go against the tenets of community." And "By the time we reached home, Mama would have received a call about our failure to show courtesy and respect." These were my two favourite lines in the entire story because I too could relate to this as it has occured many times during my childhood and even happens now, only difference is that now, I don't care. I liked the poetic approach that the author had. I think it was one of the reasons that I enjoyed it so much. It got a little depressing when she started to speak about racism. It broght me here to Barbados and the current "problem" with foreigners especially Guyanese. I am for integration and I have a huge problem with the ill treatment of any living human being -unless they absolutely ask for it- so I related when she referenced M. Scott Peck "each and every human being - you, every friend, every stranger, every foregner is precious."
"Walking by someone's house, seeing them on their porch, and failing to speak was to go against the tenets of community." And "By the time we reached home, Mama would have received a call about our failure to show courtesy and respect." These were my two favourite lines in the entire story because I too could relate to this as it has occured many times during my childhood and even happens now, only difference is that now, I don't care. I liked the poetic approach that the author had. I think it was one of the reasons that I enjoyed it so much. It got a little depressing when she started to speak about racism. It broght me here to Barbados and the current "problem" with foreigners especially Guyanese. I am for integration and I have a huge problem with the ill treatment of any living human being -unless they absolutely ask for it- so I related when she referenced M. Scott Peck "each and every human being - you, every friend, every stranger, every foregner is precious."
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