Thursday, May 25, 2017
Yucatan
Limo cut inspired by the birds here at Hacienda Uxmal. Ready to print at the Graphic Bakery tomorrow.
Saturday, May 6, 2017
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Art as protest
I'm responding to the confronting ethical questions which you can't avoid when you live in the Caymans. The gaping chasm between the haves and the have nots. The cult of excess. Pollution and waste but also the spending choices. Overconsumption but also thoughtless consumption.
Greetings from the Caymans
Am reminded of the Supertramp album, Crisis? What crisis?
Greetings from the Caymans
2017
Sue George
digital photograph
Pavement as pedestrian fracture
Playing with collage and photographs of photographs. Here using my photos of pavement cracks (Cayman Island, but universal) and photographing again, over found images (magazines, found photos, postcards).
Monday, February 6, 2017
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.
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.
Friday, February 3, 2017
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.
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
Saturday, January 28, 2017
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