Sweet Island Cookie Cutters – Sweet Fuh So!

Installation
Written by Annalee Davis

Title
Sweet Island Cookie Cutters – Sweet Fuh So!

Year
2007

Medium:
Acrylic cookie cutters (x7)
Indoor/outdoor carpet
Laser engraved andiroba boxes

Dimensions:
7.75"(W) x 7.75(L) x 2" (D)

Photo Credit:
PAMM

Collector:
Collection of artist

Sweet Island Cookie Cutters – Sweet Fuh So! responds to the developers’ vision of Barbados as a perfect tourist attraction offering well-packaged, exclusive housing developments for wealthy locals and expatriates, built around golf courses and polo fields. Most of the shorelines are no longer visible from the coastal roads as the requisite gates and high walls built by absentee homeowners block the windows-to-the-sea. The increasingly over-developed south coast means that with disappearing coastlines, the interior of the island is under pressure to be fashioned into upmarket “community living” centres. This suite of seven wooden boxes with laser engraved lids slide open to reveal cookie cutters shaped as cocktail glass, palm tree, yacht, etc. 

In 2007, Sweet Island Cookie Cutters – Sweet Fuh So! was commissioned for Happy Island – Encuentro Bienal Contemporaneo Di Caribe in Aruba, curated by Jose Manuel Noceda. Later, in 2012 – 2013 it was included in the Caribbean: Crossroads of the World exhibition and displayed at El Museo del Barrio, curated by Elvis Fuentes. In 2014, it was included in a revised version of Caribbean: Crossroads of the World at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), curated by Elvis Fuentes and Tobias Ostrander. 

Annalee Davis
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