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		<title>Recent Work &#124; July 6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month I went to Washington, DC to install work at Honfleur Gallery in Anacostia. The show called &#8216;Wavelengths&#8217; was curated by the &#8216;wonder twins&#8217;, Mary Cook and Alison Nance of Microwave Project. It included Jessica Braiterman (PA), Gretchen Schermerhorn (DC), Yasmin Spiro (NYC) , Alexandra Radocchio Zealand (DC). Unfortunatley I didn&#8217;t get to see the work of two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abandoned July 6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An artist friend (Simone) recently posted this link to &#8217;25 abandoned Yugoslav monuments that look like they are from the future&#8217;. I can&#8217;t stop looking at these &#8211; they seem like they are part of some bizarre Buckminster Fuller fantasy. They are so weighted with the symbolism of the moment in which they were built, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ARC &#8211; a great new Caribbean arts and culture  mag. January, 30</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ARC Magazine Issue 1 cover image by featured artist Radcliffe Roye from Jamaica

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		<title>Wayward Plants October 26th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was browsing landscape architecture sites looking at vertical and rooftop gardens (ahm&#8230;what do you do with your spare time?) and stumbled across this genius site: www.waywardplants.org I love that in the &#8216;Plant Registry&#8217; each plant gets equal attention and it&#8217;s history is recorded. Some people read People magazine, I read &#8216;Wayward Plants&#8217;.  Anyway, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nurture Art October 13th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a great time last night at the Nurture Art Benefit @ Ziehersmith Gallery in Chelsea. I donated a small gouache to the curated benefit. Seen here. I really like their programming and philosophy. You can continue to support them by buying tickets for their raffle (thru April 1st). Linked HERE. An amazing Shinique [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lairs at the Botanic Gardens, Aug 17th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Artist Patrick Dougherty has been working on his woven-wood sculptures &#8211; Lairs &#8211; at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. I can&#8217;t wait to go and take my little girl. He has been working on them for the past few weeks. Its so nice to see this happening there and it&#8217;s such a &#8216;natural&#8217; fit. I always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Close Encounters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m really looking forward to working with Tricia Fay from FGCU and the students there to complete the installation for the Caribbean Encounters show. My work often uses discarded materials, and most recently materials from abandoned housing and infrastructure. Ms. Fay has gotten her students involved  and they are contributing by bringing in found wood. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trolley</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Close Encounters: Contemporary Art by Caribbean Women opens February 18th at Florida Gulf Coast University. I&#8217;ll be heading down there in a week to build/install my piece &#8220;Tracks&#8221;. This will a sculpture/video installation using found and salvaged wood, and video work that uses old footage of the railways lines and cars, and film I took [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growing Vertical</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a mini obsession with vertical nature walls. So I was excited to see this in the NYTimes about growing green. IN PORTLAND, GROWING VERTICAL I&#8217;ve used vertical grass walls in my work (see here) and recently they have been popping up everywhere in art and design publications. They are a kind of visual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contemporary Art by Caribbean Women</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be heading down to Florida to work on an installation in mid February for a show of Contemporary Art by Caribbean Women. The other artists in the show are Annalee Davis (Barbados), Babette Wainwright (Haiti), Elsa Mora (Cuba), Yunia Pavon, (Cuba), Ana Mendieta (Cuba. On loan from the Miami Art Museum) and myself (Jamaica). [...]]]></description>
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