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Monday, May 28, 2007

One land - One people - Trinidad and Tobago

Where did all the thinkers go? - Clinton Anthony Commings

This is a sketchy pencil drawing of Trinidad and Tobago's first Prime Minister, Eric Williams which is located opposite the headquarters of the Party in power. More ironically Mr. Williams formed it. Yet a graffiti artist thinks otherwise of the present leadership, and the faint outline of the "Father of the Nation" is the ghost in its shadow.

Eric Williams had envisioned the small nation as an united peoples brought to here by the circumstances of the times, and having the great potential to move forward as a new Independent Republic.

The graffiti artist, Clinton Anthony Commings asks since his death twenty six years ago, "Where did all the thinkers go?" And he is reflecting on the precarious antics that seem to plague the people that represent Trinidad and Tobago at its present time in history. -thebookmann

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Richard Bolai lives and works from Trinidad, West Indies. He is a bookbinder,Graphic designer and the author of thebookmann, which from 2004, has written and photographed independently aspects of Trinidad and Tobago's art culture.

In 2008, he began a series of self studies called Feinin which incorporated digital superpositions of artists who have left a mark in art history by using the internet as the core of reference. He also produced parodies relating to anthropological studies of Trinidad and Tobago, for example, folklore or observations of the society via class and stereotypes

The work then expanded by actually creating dimensional replicas, capturing a map over the subjects to explore the underling subconscious in the form of art. This aided the ability to analyze art by producing art parodies to understand the meaning behind it. No money was spent or assistance in producing these compositions from common items found in his home, a chair, a mirror, or old tyre.

The artists lists includes, da Vinci's Last Supper, Koons's dog, Hirst's spin paintings, Andres Serrano's piss Christ to Monet to name a few, over one hundred artists' have been completed, producing one in every 24 hour cycle.

It should be noted that with the feinin studies, you should see that actual work that is been parodied via the link. It makes no sense otherwise.

thebookmann archives is a source of information for art academics and students alike. A major contributor to thebookmann is Adele Todd

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