GHOST FACE KILLA OMINOUS REINDEER MAN IN JA.

Got a number of cool gifts this Christmas...among them was a pair of Reindeer antlers and a "blinking" red nose. I also got a cool book from my friend Dave on iPHONEOGRAPHY. So I started exploring the antlers from the perspective of someone who is gradually coming around to really liking Christmas once again. Don't ask...long story, but anyways I give you..da Ghost Face Killa' Ominous Reindeer Man Series...in Jamaica...all shot on iPod. ENJOY.-rmr.

Darryn Boodan:

hmm the reindeer is not an ingeniousness animal to the Caribbean space

wearing the antlers and red nose... almost becomes a carnival costume... reminiscent of a blue devil on jouvert morning...

this work attempts to subvert the traditional visual vocabulary we posess, by imposing a re imagined concept of an imposed tradition thereby reclaiming it

there is also an innate sadness about the work..in each frame we get a sense of isolation and despair..this surely is an ode to "Rudolph the red nose reindeer " the lonely reindeer that nobody wanted to play with... the object in the photos seems to resign himself to the fact that there will be no "santa" to come to his rescue and ask him to guide his slay tonight...transforming him into a new social creature ..no....he is doomed to a world of sadness

Soft Box Studios End of Season Exhibition 2011

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Work available by the following artists: Mary Adams, Al Alexander, Tessa Alexander, Ashraph, Eddie Bowen, Christopher Cozier, Ken Crichlow, Embah, Nicholas Emery, Janice Derek, Susie Dayal, Karen DeVerteuil, Rex Dixon, Carlisle Harris, Jackie Hinkson, Harold jiminez, Kwynn Johnson, Greer Jones, Paul Kain, Mazola, Alicia Milne, Wendy Nanan. Kenderson Norray, Bunty O’Connor, :isa O’Connor, Garvin Pierre, Richard Rawlins, Clayton Rhule, Rachel Rochford, Nadya Shah, Shalini, Irénée Shaw, Shastri, Singh Brothers, Christine Warrington, Adam Williams, Gregory Williams and others.

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disillusions: Gendered Visions of the Caribbean and its Diasporas

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disillusions: Gendered Visions of the Caribbean and its Diasporas, catalog online now at artzpub. Edited by Tatiana Flores. 180 pgs fc. Essays by Flores and Michelle Stephens with interviews of the artists by Allison Harbin and Tashima Thomas. Design by Richard Mark Rawlins. Download now.

3 DEVILS and a REDMAN

Some pics of my work and a few others during the hanging of the SOFT BOX GALLERY end of season exhibition and open house 2011. I'm honored to be in such esteemed company.

Susie Dayal

Wendy Nanan

Ashraph

Rachel Rochford

disillusions: ART CATALOG DESIGN SNEAK PEAK

Design for "disillusions" show eVite curated by Tatiana Flores

Artists in the Exhibition

Maria Elena Alvarez (Venezuela) Nicole Awai (Trinidad) Firelei Baez (Dominican Republic) Holly Bynoe (St. Vincent and the Grenadines) Melissa A. Calderon (U.S.A/Puerto Rico)Vladimir Cybil Charlier (Haiti) Asha Ganpat (U.S.A./Trinidad) Jessica Lagunas (Guatemala) Rejin Leys (U.S.A./Haiti) Sofia Maldonado (Puerto Rico) Ana Patricia Palacios (Colombia) Sandra Stephens (Jamaica)

Concept: This exhibition brings together work of women artists from the Caribbean and its diasporas that addresses themes related to gender. It defines the Caribbean as an expansive space that is not limited by national borders or island geographies. Grouping work by women from Anglophone, francophone, and Spanish-speaking backgrounds, it shows how common themes emerge from the experience of gender despite regional differences. The exhibition title “Disillusions” refers to the tendency of the work in the exhibition to shatter illusion-whether pictorial or otherwise-by engaging in formal fragmentation, embracing discontinuity, and obfuscating meaning. These artists refuse to present a world that is whole or coherent; instead they acknowledge that contemporary experience is fragmented, subjective, and often incomprehensible.

PHOTOGRAPHY: Woi Bashment in Town

Dancehall influence has crept or been dragged across the world even as far as Japan, often kicking and screamingly so by force. Barbados is no different. Their version" BASHMENT" is portrayed here through a series of pictures I shot in Bridgetown.

Getting Schooled in Bashment

Like everything else there are some prerequisites for a good "BASHMENT" poster: a) women in a variety of poses b) men doing gansta roll with a gang-sign fingers or rastaman greetings c) a pit bull or two in the poster d) some bajan twang spelled out for good measure. Enjoy.

women in a variety of poses

gang-sign fingers or rastaman greetings