Gathering Bones
Gathering Bones is a body of work rooted in the chapter I’ve spent returning to Trinidad, my birthplace, over the past six years. What began as a geographical return slowly became an act of psychic restoration. In the quiet of the land, I found myself gathering fragments of identity, memory, instinct, and longing that had been scattered through years of searching and survival. Inspired by the myth of La Loba in Women Who Run with the Wolves, who collects bones in the desert and sings over them until the wolf resurrects and runs into the horizon, this series reflects my own process of assembling a skeleton from abandoned or forgotten parts of self. Each painting holds a piece of that structure (shadow, light, body, land) laid down with care as if building something back into form. “Gathering Bones” is both an acknowledgment of what was once scattered and a devotion to what can be brought back into wholeness when those pieces are reclaimed and given voice.