(up)rooted

Title
(up)rooted

Year:
1997

Medium:
Purple heart house
Coccinia grandis
Smilax oblongata

Dimensions:
Variable

Photo Credit:
Ronnie Carrington

Collector:
Collection of artist

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(up)rooted
Purple heart house, Coccinia grandis and Smilax oblongata
Dimensions variable, 1997

(Photo credit: Ronnie Carrington)

(up)rooted refers to the constantly shifting notions of “home”, reconfigured with every move as human beings navigate their way between longings and belonging. Increasingly, “home” becomes a place carried within, as opposed to a fixed physical locale.

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(up)rooted Purple heart house, Coccinia grandis and Smilax oblongata
Dimensions variable, 1997

(Photo credit: Ronnie Carrington)

(up)rooted was exhibited in three  solo exhibitions including in 1997, (up)rotted, The Art Foundry, Four Square Factory, Barbados; 2000, re/routed, CCA7, Trinidad and Tobago; and 2002, Evoking a Caribbean, Art Museum of the Americas, OAS Gallery, Washington, D.C., USA

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(up)rooted Purple heart house, Coccinia grandis and Smilax oblongata
Dimensions variable, 1997

(Photo credit: Ronnie Carrington)