The Sun Never Sets is a riposte to a 1954 British archival footage promoting travel to the Caribbean island of Trinidad (tYouTube video linked above). The British visual depicts Trinidad as an island paradise inhabited by diverse, happy, colorful natives. What is glaringly omitted from the narrator’s framing is Britain’s colonial relationship with the region and the violent history of plantation agriculture, enslavement, and indenture that shaped the composition of the territory and culture that gets repackaged for tourist consumption. Layering nineteenth—and early twentieth-century photos, found footage, and audio excerpts from the 1954 visual piece (using Adobe Photoshop and Premiere) it critiques, The Sun Never Sets amplifies the haunting contradictions of idyllic representations of the past, as it speaks to the social and political-economic processes through which the modern Caribbean was forged, people’s ongoing resistance to these processes, and the ways history is felt even when silenced.

MOON DANCER  is a 6 second collage animation where each frame is produced by hand. This piece was made in 2023 during a workshop facilitated by Philadelphia-based interdisciplinary artisit Yannick Lowrey.