Re-Visioning Fragments of a Life in Jamaica

Authors

  • Carol Campbell Edna Manley College for the Visual and Performing Arts

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18733/cpi29631

Abstract

Carol Campbell with an example of cultural preservation in Jamaica, using photographs and an essay  to record the careful deconstruction of an old house to be re-constructed and preserved as a cultural museum.

Author Biography

Carol Campbell, Edna Manley College for the Visual and Performing Arts

Carol Campbell was an artist and lecturer at the Edna Manley College for the Visual and Performing Arts for over 15 years. Carol is also an award winning jewelry designer/goldsmith with over 40 years in the field as a practicing artist, exhibitor and lecturer, and is a champion of cultural development through the arts.

An intuitive self-portrait, inspired by the pieces inclluded in this journal that explore memory through multi-sensory experiences. I tried to create through various ways of knowing. I wanted to make something that you could run yur fingers along, and feel the different textures, the bumps in the grain of the wood, the brush strokes, the paper flowers, the cloth material, all of it. If you got close to it I wanted you to be able to smell the mix of coffee, acrylic paint, and the subtle aroma of dried flowers. I wanted to invoke textures through sight with various patterns and mark making. Lastly, I used past journal entries to create the flowers adding another layer of memory to the artwork that is unique and persona to me, reflecting on how each person's way of remembering is their own. Mihaela Slabe.

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Published

2022-07-15

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 1 (2021): Multisensory Storytelling: Creating Different Forms of Knowing, Being and Living in our World

Section

Articles, Illustrations and Verse