Art at Don's Roti Shop

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Art at Don's Roti Shop

The bar next to Don's Roti shop, Diego Martin, Trinidad with a Christmas Tree and Music Boom boxes nest to it.

Don's Roti is a popular shop in Diego Martin and many loyal customers wait over an hour to get their all potato, channa, veg, chicken or beef wraps. Many hungry patrons sometimes go next door at their Rumshop to take a nip of Scotch and to discuss the politics of the day. Is dem fault make we so!. This is the general tone of many conversations. Knowing what's wrong with the country and making the best to keep it so.

But at this festive time, Christmas is being celebrated by an installment of a large and tastefully decorated Christmas tree which matches two collages resembling a wooden Rum cast interspersed with gold leaf. These paintings are the visual backdrop of a couple embracing tightly, the woman taking a sip from her drink, and feeling up of her man's ass at the side. Baby Jesus would be shocked. Oh Trinidad is nice, Trinidad is a paradise.

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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.

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Wednesday, December 17, 2008