Unda War Ta Blu SOOM

In a culture of convenience-based consumption, we are more efficient at replacing than repairing. My grandfather taught and repaired electronics, preserving what still worked. Still, what about the things or people broken beyond repair? What potential works of art lie in their destruction and renewal?

The development of the steelpan from discarded metal drums and tins has inspired me to incorporate circular economy principles into my practice. By turning the discarded into works of art, I contemplate the creation of beauty in stillness and in the absence of light on non-functioning television sets that once held a gaze from flickering images powered across the screen.

Glass from television sets is repurposed to serve as canvases, and LED reflectors from old TVs are used as gems on carnival costumes and to spell in braille on my relief paintings. Switchboards inspire depictions of entire cities and industrial parks, while capacitors in my mixed media collages represent steelpan orchestras. The television set cases are sometimes repurposed for framing, and the remaining parts are recycled as scrap iron.