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Packed to capacity, The Open Up Spoken word gave an incite into the use ...
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Packed to capacity, The Open Up Spoken word gave an incite into the use of language as to relay the wanting of Love and Sex. Performers from the series of exhibitions gave the public what they came and longed for, SEX. And expressed in its raw form, interpreted from memory, words and with some zeal. The video shows a few clips from the event at The Corner Bar, Port of Spain, Trinidad. The Erotic Art Week ends on the 2nd, July, 2009
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Im just one of the people on the project. Christian Alexis, graphic desi...
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Im just one of the people on the project. Christian Alexis, graphic designer and artist first approached me with the idea. We pulled in Richard Rawlins, another designer and Terry Smith an architect. Since then a few other people like Lisa Allen-Agostini, Darren Boodan and Rodell Warner have joined the Erotic bandwagon. - Dave
Hailed as the first kind of art show in Trinidad and Tobago, the Erotic Art week launched a series of exhibitions showcasing artists who ventured into their view of understanding what Eroticism means.
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A few years ago, Lisa Brice had worked on a series of studies surroundin...
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A few years ago, Lisa Brice had worked on a series of studies surrounding Peter Doigs family at CCA7. The portraits where painted as if she had photographed them using an infrared camera. What is unusual about this is that much later an painter by the name of Rachel Rochford would occupy one of the studios and paint work that carried a similar appeal. Night vision.
At her current exhibition, Document Me at the Trinidad Art Society, Ms. Rochford is showing forty six works produced by clippings from the Newspapers popular opinion page. These are not portraits but rather she says head shots of faces which individually are a catalyst in the final piece. They embody the spirit of the person captured by (wiping off) adding or removing the positive spaces to give it its negative composition. This technique takes a bit of skill as she works with acrylics without using a retarder to slow the process of drying down. It means that a painting is done more like a pelimimary wash in under twenty minutes. They cant be overworked because any unevenness would surely be noticed. Ms. Rochford is not shy by explaining the stages she feels fit not the continue if a work becomes too overworked. There is no saving a memory here, she starts from a clean slate by re-coating the canvas with gesso.
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#11 They should be neutral that is why they are independent Santa Cruz
The entire collection took a year to produce. They are like a memory of seeing someone pass you by on the street. Rache Rochford takes this opportunity to express what she sees by a kindness in its intent. These are not just people at random, but rather the Peoples that make up her Island. They belong in her heart, they speak from her hands about despair, hope, celebration in a time of uncertainty, yet encompasses an united one.
The only concern with many of the paintings is that the acrylic makes the work dull, its needs a glaze to lift the undertones and add a richness to the canvas. I wonder if Ms. Rochford has ever explored or considered oils
Rachel Amy Rochford was trained from the University of Reading, United Kingdom, She occupies a studio at Fernandes Compound, Laventille, Trinidad. Document Me runs until June 29, 2009, Trinidad Art Society Building, Trinidad
Filed under: Art Reviews , Rachel Amy Rochford
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thebookmann uploaded a new video
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If ever you missed breakfast, stop by the Brooklyn Bar, Woodbrook, Port ...
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If ever you missed breakfast, stop by the Brooklyn Bar, Woodbrook, Port of Spain and sample their doubles. but I must warn you that timing is everything. If you arrive and there is a line to the right, expect to wait fifteen minutes or longer. Each customer will be ordering , 4 8 -12 doubles. People just wait their turn calmly. To the left, those are the customers who will eat their doubles on the spot, 1, 2 ,3 perhaps. The person who takes your orders has a price chart so calculating how much it is going to cost is a quick as a glance.
Doubles are best served with every condiment including mango chutney, channa, cucumbers and slight pepper. The girls just work it. Look a the video and see for yourself. The doubles vendors of which they are two, along with a long story are one of the best tasting in Port of Spain. Ps: Look out for a busload of foreigners who would bounce up and join the line at the exact time you arrive.
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thebookmann uploaded a new video
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Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, doctrine is to foster critical...
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Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, doctrine is to foster critical thinking and free the mind of limits and prejudice, thus preparing students to lead lives that are personally satisfying and examined for civic responsibility, and social usefulness. Founded in 1823 it is the second oldest college in the American State. Two students have braved the chartered waters to the Caribbean and spent their semester via the student exchange at the University of the West Indies.
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