Bio
Xaymaka (Jamaica) - that hot, black-green-golden island of the Circum-Caribbean Basin - is the territory of my birth. I grew up in Jamaica and also between Trinidad, USA and Canada (on account of study) with a blended family of mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers and uncountable cousins. From my practice of art, design and advertising, in music education and in cultural studies, I overstand how anthropologists have their eyes on the Circum-Caribbean as a microcosm of Indigenous Peoples of the world, learning to get along. In Toronto, we had the full four seasons and the snow belt where red foxes, hawks, eagles, racoons, skunks, snakes, frogs and myriads of birds, cicadas and butterflies also made their homes. When an injury in New York forced me to learn how different the world looks at the speed of sound than it does at the speed of light and how our "dominant five" (senses) are just one-tenth of the possible "alternate ways of knowing", I began to draw on these different ways of listening, seeing and knowing to build connections, engagement and relatedness so gaps and conflict can begin to melt by learning wholeness through the arts and other ways of ReStor(y)ing. Ask me, let me tell you.
