ART Habens Contemporary Art Review | Page 163

An interview by and , curator curator Amanda Graham most of the time however there was always sense of lost and longing. Never contented with my environment the urge to create my own became paramount. I taught myself to draw and became attached to art because I spent the best part of my youth alone. As a child I frequently travelled between Trinidad, Tobago and London which made me the new kid, in a new school and in a new environment. I became isolated and never really connected to friends and family. In hindsight the repeated travelling was harrowing. Largely, I stood out all I really wanted was to blend in. As time went by I slowly became introverted, spending a lot of time by myself. All things changed when to share who I was with others. My earliest memory of being liked by my peers began with a picture I drew of Michael Jackson. I had gone from being the weird kid with the foreign accent to the kid who can draw and just like that my love affair with art had flourished. Always the reseacher I My childhood was far from traditional. As a child of a fatherless home I was happy 4 04 Special Issue