Writing excerpt on Place Attachment and Collective Belonging 

“In many ways, the relationship between a land and its inhabitants can be seen as analogous to that of a torrid love affair. Intertwined, we grow sometimes symbiotically, but often at odds with one another. The land we choose to call home, (whatever nation or state this may be), has compressed between the layers of its bedrock, the genetic code of our history, our collective experience. This physical entity (and indeed our ongoing dialogue with it) then emerges as the dynamic narrator of our cultural identity. My desire to unpack these ideas through my practice has evolved over several years of cyclical movement between the UK (an adopted ancestral cradle) and Trinidad (my birthplace). Despite significant periods dislocated from it, the roots of the latter landscape have become enmeshed in my consciousness, binding my sense of self to the topography, culture and incorporeal essence of this nation”