Brooklyn Museum: Exhibitions: Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art

Nicole Awai (b. Trinidad 1966; works in United States). Specimen from L.E. (Local Ephemera): Resistance with Black Ooze, 2005. Graphite, acrylic paint, nail polish, and glitter on paper, 52 x 58 in. (132.1 x 147.3 cm). Courtesy of the artist (Photo: Jason Mandella)

Artist Statement

I am focused primarily on two things, multiplicity of perspective (the many at once) and the elasticity of time . . . which stretches and bounces back and forth in our complex, collective human psyche. History dissolves, evaporates, and reconstitutes constantly and all at once, making the postcolonial predicament immediate and ephemeral, distant and perpetual. The shift space, the ooze, the place in between, is where meaning is elucidated and compounded all at once.

6 Comments

I REDALLY LIKE THIS ART I THINK IT IS REALLY COOOL SON I WOULD LOVE TO DRAW LIKE THIS

— Posted by JORDAYNE LAMEY

ooooo trinidad!!!!!!! trini 2 de bone.....doubles n aloo pie r the best man....oh gosh

— Posted by fatty ann

i think its beautiful

— Posted by anna wen

Nicole Awai is an amazing artist and teacher!!

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very nice

— Posted by BIHS

From one Trini to another - I look at that, and I would like to know what is in her mind when she's doing this. I see the readings of what's she's trying to bring out. But for somebody like me, you got to break it down. What really is this? Because I'm reading those words - I got to go to the dictionary to find out stuff.

— Posted by Pat from Curepe