Great quote to hang onto when reading difficult texts!

"Theory comes in and out of focus."

In class explanation by Dr Dot Tuer, Post-Colonial Issues in Visual Culture at OCADu, January 23, 2017. 

Anish Kapoor at Arte Continua in Havana

Old drawings from the archives. 

"The attempt to connect landscape and humankind is an attempt to create an autochthonous culture and thus found both a nation and a sense of community, of being a people." (Heller 403).

Heller, Ben A. "Landscape, Femininity, and the Caribbean Discourse." MLN 111.2 (1996): 391-416. Project Muste [John Hopkins UP]. Web. 28 Aug. 2016.

A seven-part series on the history of the Caribbean narrated by Stuart Hall

Practices of Display at the ROM

A trip to the Royal Ontario Museum to think about practices of display.

Such beautiful colours in this room

would not want to meet up with this in the sea

I found some orishas.

Some serious craftsmanship

Redpath Sugar Museum

WIfredo Lam | Tate Shots

Caribbean: Crossroads of the World - Counterpoints

Héctor Méndez Caratini and Annalee Davis discuss their work featured in the Counterpoints gallery of Caribbean: Crossroads of the World. 

Island in the Sun

C.L.R. James: “These people who are in Western civilization, who have grown up in it but yet are not completely a part, have a unique insight... and something special to contribute.” 

Stuart Hall and David A. Bailey, editorial in “Critical Decade: Black British Photography in the Eighties,” Ten.8 2, no. 3 (1992): 4