She works at the intersection of biography and history, focusing on post-plantation economies by engaging with a particular landscape on Barbados.

Contemporary Middle Passage (here) and (there)
Annalee Davis Annalee Davis

Contemporary Middle Passage (here) and (there)

Sixteen feet long and six feet wide, this double sided work on a single piece of paper shows on the (here) side, a woman falling in the abyss, holding onto her umbilicus, trying to situate herself between a island image seen through rose coloured glasses at the foot of the painting, a royal palm and a hand reaching for a rooted home. On the reverse, the woman flies high in the sky, head amongst the birds, luggage trailing behind, suspended in a Caribbean migrant dilemma between here and there.

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