Mind Maps

The Task of the Translator

In the same way a translation, instead of imitating the sense of the original, must lovingly and in detail incorporate the original's way of meaning, thus making both the original and the translation recognizable as fragments of a greater language, just as fragments are part of a vessel.

Walter Benjamin, Selected Writings Volume 1, 1913-1926, page 260

Bodies Without Organs

An assignment from my Critical Theory class in which we had to learn a passage from How Do you Make a Body without Organs by F. Guattari and G. Deleuze.

I wish I was there (after Kohnstamm)

Artist Talk - Yinka Shonibare

"Birthing the art of the diaspora by metaphorically killing the predecessors".

Yinka Shonibare, the Phi Centre, April 27, 2015

Dark & Stormy at the Bienal Internacional de Asuncion, Paraguay

IAMD at OCADU

Exciting times as I begin the IAMD MFA studio program at OCADu, Toronto. 

Diverse Toronto - Diverse Cuba

Artist Talk - Yinka Shonibare

"The art is informed by politics but is not politics, the subject matter is important but the art is still a form of poetry"

Yinka Shonibare, the Phi Centre, April 27, 2015

Magritte is ever present

Esto No Es Un Café, Havana, Cuba