In the video, there is a pawpaw tree and dry woods; the young pawpaw is dancing & jubilating sensing the rain as life, the same rain that falls on the lifeless wood made it decaying from time time…
What goes well with someone might turn to be deadly or fatal for another person.
“LESSONS OF LIFE”
A first proposal of the colours through which I saw my place in the world before meeting my ancestor, and after meeting my ancestor. This serves as a first landing space to feel through these colours, with the intention to continue to create visuals with this as a foundation (Lo).
in this experimental short, I incarnate both my grandmother, Eulalie, and her mother-in-law, Gracia, cooked for the family together, in their home in San Juan, Trinidad, and who always spoke to each other in Spanish. I explore my grandmother’s staunch Catholic faith vs Gracia’s perhaps not.