Yes. It really looks like this.

This is popular souvenir slogan here, used on everything from tote bags to fridge magnets.

It provided a perfect juxtaposition for images of the plastic waste problem. It's inadvisable, I think, to comment on places and situations with which you are unfamiliar. Is it my place to simplify a complex issue as a postcard comment. Perhaps a generic image, taking away the Cayman Islands tag, would be more acceptable.

Taste of Cayman

Just a small taste of life here on the Caymans. I am looking at existing postcards and re-creation of promotional postcards to reflect something of the realities.

I found a bundle of postcards left over from the Taste of Cayman festival last weekend and wanted to capture something of that experience. We went to the festival and found, for $CI40 per person you got 12 tickets which bought you two glasses of wine. That's something like $A25 per glass and while it was promoted as an island festival it certainly wasn't somewhere that everyone could afford to go. I felt I had walked into yet another staged production.

There was also an article in the paper this week, bemoaning the job opportunities for Caymanians and I noticed, in the classified notices, the poor pay and conditions offered jobs in hospitality. $4.50-9.00 per hour, split shifts and a standard 45 hour week. It seemed such a contradiction to the image they were promoting at the festival.

I used the Taste of Caymans postcards to provide a window into real life for Caymanians working in the hospitality sector serving wealthy locals and visitors.

Taste of Cayman #1 Willing to work weekends

Sue George

2017

altered found postcard and collage, 148.5x105mm

Taste of Cayman #1 Willing to work shifts, weekends and public holidays

Sue George

2017

altered found postcard and collage, 148.5x105mm