WHINE YUH BODY GYAL: This series is emblematic of the Artist’s contemporary painting practice. It is an offering in movement, material, and memory. It began as a reimagining of Matisse’s Dance.

In this collection, paint, moved by hand as the body is moved by mind, is riddim’d across the surface in gestures that echo dance itself - deliberate, instinctive, alive.

Through monochromatic layers of varying viscosities, the Artist creates a visual field where cause-and-effect are inseparable: the painter is in the painting, the painting in the painter.

The fluidity of pigment mirrors the fluidity of identity as Dance honours the Black Atlantic and the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival, not as spectacle but as psyche; a space of freedom, presence, and ecstatic selfhood without apology.

Here, brown paper becomes more than substrate; it is skin, body, origin. It is the reality beneath the glitter and sparkle of Carnival. This is not performance, but procession; not depiction, but invocation.

“After the sparkle fades you have to deal with what's left - whether you like what you see or not” - Ekow Eshun, Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for Home in Africa and Beyond