Test-ify

I created this image for my Postervirus; 2013 Launch poster (which I will post once I get a copy of it with the text- "Religion can't protect you"). 

This piece is called "Test-ify" and with it I am addressing the use of religion to oppress, ostracize and violently discriminate against people with hiv/aids in the black and Afro-Caribbean communities. I am suggesting that we fight this ‘power’ and the spread of the virus, by getting tested and also ‘testifying’ to the truth of what's going on in the community - the ostracism, the ignorance about the virus and the violence committed in the name of religion.

 

For this piece I used adinkra symbols; and the devil/angel comes out of devil character from Trinidad carnival – where there are many colored devils – this one is a white devil.

 

Size of piece is 8.5 x14 inches and materials used are acrylic ink, oil pastel, mirrors, safety pins on mylar.

Church Street Mural Launch

Church Street Mural Launch - Councillor, some of the Artists and Curators

The BMO Church Street Mural Launch occurred on 19th October 2013 (a day before my birthday). In the pictures you have Kristyn Wong-Tam the Councillor who is heading up this project in conjunction with the Church St BIA and World Pride 2014. In the other picture are some of the artists - Troy Brooks, William Craddock, Meera Sethi, the two curators- James Fowler and Syrus Marcus Ware and myself - Natalie Wood.