#Adele/cutwork embroidery

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Violence BLOOMS (2002-9)

I used red embroidery to depict delicate Anthuriums.

Violence Blooms - is a statement about crime as it looks against our Caribbean life. We all struggle with the reality of violence in our once idyllic spaces, where criminals creep between the blooms.

The Anthuriums join together and form a blood spot that fans out into lines that then can be hung up from any direction. The organic shape also looks like a dart board and acts like one in the space.

The dimensional embroidery (dhow dhow, pax pax) is the sound that gunfire makes and the language that we in Trinidad and Tobago use to express that sound. The lettering was experimental for this piece and I did not include it when the work went to China. I did not want the wording to get lost in translation, and the embroidery could stand on its own. 

The photograph was taken in my garden for the Beijing Biennale.