Holly Bynoe is a visual artist from St. Vincent and the Grenadines; she is currently living and working in the Caribbean. She is the Editor-in-Chief of ARC Magazine, launched in January 2011.
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Spanning the mediums of Photography, Writing and Video, my practice confronts through visual and textual juxtapositions the issues of identity, politics and place. I am interested in interrogating states of being; those residing between history and myth, between remembering and inevitable erasure. The narratives and fictions dispersed throughout the Anglophone Caribbean and its Diaspora, contains the sites I contemplate to address experience and belonging.
My collages identified as Compounds are constructed through a central device of layering and re-configuring. The weathering and deterioration of pixels reinforces the idea of an unreliable voice, highlighting the loss of a true narrative space. Tangled lineages and migrations are dissected to expose figures and faces that are distorted, collapsed and veiled. I examine maps, charts, and oceans to reconfigure their stories within my writing; I seek within structure and composition to consider the colonization of language and the implications of past and present passages. The sea is history and within that history there is only fiction.
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Spanning the mediums of Photography, Writing and Video, my practice confronts through visual and textual juxtapositions the issues of identity, politics and place. I am interested in interrogating states of being; those residing between history and myth, between remembering and inevitable erasure. The narratives and fictions dispersed throughout the Anglophone Caribbean and its Diaspora, contains the sites I contemplate to address experience and belonging.
My collages identified as Compounds are constructed through a central device of layering and re-configuring. The weathering and deterioration of pixels reinforces the idea of an unreliable voice, highlighting the loss of a true narrative space. Tangled lineages and migrations are dissected to expose figures and faces that are distorted, collapsed and veiled. I examine maps, charts, and oceans to reconfigure their stories within my writing; I seek within structure and composition to consider the colonization of language and the implications of past and present passages. The sea is history and within that history there is only fiction.
