Copyright © Yvonne A C Wilson
God willing, Mom will celebrate her 100th birthday, April 4th, 2011
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Click on the video screen to see her present my painting to the National Museum in Dominica. She was then ninety (90) years old.
Mom on Radio with Steinberg Henry, 2001 |
Mom on Radio with Steinberg Henry, 2001 |
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Mom's Portrait, 1976 |
Mom, 1934 |
Their Wedding, 1956 |
Our Wedding, 1980 |
Her 80th, 1991. |
Mom 88 1999 |
Mom 90, 2001 |
Mom 95, 2006 |
Mom 98, 2009 |
La maternité de mon artrelates to the locus and starting point of my artistic journey. It was in Portsmouth, Commonwealth of Dominica, W.I. that this journey began. My mother, *Mrs Leoma A Wilson, inadvertently planted in my mind, the concept of visual pun and from then onward, I have been able to perceive multiple hidden imagery in whatever I behold.
Here she is at 95 years of age:Mom
WHAT IS
ANTHROPOMORPHISM? "Anthropomorphism
:An exercise in Ultra Perceptive Plausible Juxtaposition" germinated in my mind when my mother began to teach my late brother, *Edward, and me to read. She would insist, even during vacation time, that we do at least one hour of reading before we were free to go outdoors. On one occasion, she began to quiz us on the material that we were supposed to have read. She asked Eddie to identify the map of Italy. Unable to do so, Eddie looked to me for an answer. However, mom insisted that he answer and hinted to him that "Italy is kicking Sicily." I felt a chill at that realization. On recognizing the visual pun, I expressed my observation that the Map of Dominica, our Caribbean Island home, resembled a penguin and
that Guadeloupe, the neighboring island, resembled a butterfly.
From that point on, I have always sought hidden images in
anything I see. Map
of Dominica Detail of "Dominique" From that early experience, I have developed a glossary of what I call mnemonic images. A mnemonic image is a commonplace object that mimics a human body part. In my mind's eye, I perceive many mnemonic objects within the images that I am contemplating. For example, one of the most frequently recurrent mnemonic images is the *hand of
bananas, which represents *the hand that fed me. It is the hand of my late father, *Mr.Henzie A. Wilson,of Portsmouth, who worked with the Banana Industry for seventeen of my formative years. On contemplating a face, I may perceive boats in a harbor or branches with leaves and flowers. Jugs and other still life objects, reflections in mirrors and human figures in an abundance of visual angles are part of my mnemonic glossary. The landscapes
reproduced in my work are characteristically Dominican. Cliffs,
bays, coconut trees, mountains, boats moored in the harbor of
Portsmouth, my hometown, are repetitive in my work. Fishing
villages such as Scottshead (Cashacrou)are incorporated into my painting, *Raphaelesque Cashacrou Madonna.
