i’m working on a series of Dready art that I want to think of as jamaican juxtapositions …

i’m just getting into them now and i’m not sure what form they’ll fully take, but ya know i like the idea and i like the thought of the fun with colors that i can have.

these are just two examples; the first is based on the ‘naomi campbell cottage’ at goldeneye – a liccle man in a liccle boat (named hustlin’) in contrast with the pretty, rich man’s cottage on the sea and another man who probably hustles on a completely different level …

another is a juxtaposition between a ‘big’ house with all its architectural symmetry and style and a country man’s off kilter home with its colour and verve.

jamaica is very much a land of these evident polar opposites; ramshackle houses on the road to great estates …

don’t get me wrong this is not a treatise on happiness or inequality or anything remotely political … cause my liccle ben’ up country home may hold a happier life than the big house ever did …

i lived in enough places amongst enough people to know that a perception of poverty is not a reality of poverty that the man living in a clean dirt floored thatch house in the wilds of belize ain’t necessarily any poorer than the dood in the penthouse at the bottom of yonge street.

livin’ and lovin’!