Mango Rose - Paradise Lost
Enjoy sweet mangoes from my island Trinidad & Tobago! Piece titled: Mango Rose
Size: 61 x 91 cm
Artist: Tricia Trotman-Maraj
Medium: Acrylic on canvas "Mango rose,
Mango vert.....
I want ah penny to buy
Mango rose,
Mango vert,
Gimme ah penny to buy..." That was the song we sang over and over again under the shade of the tamarind tree in the school yard. It was too hot in the classroom for any work to be done, and our teacher decided that the best way to pass the eveni
Beauty for Ashes - The West Indian Sugarcane Fields
Piece titled, ' Beauty for Ashes' by Tricia Trotman Maraj
Size 120 cm × 100 cm
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas This piece represents what is called ' burbon cane' ( sugarcane) in Trinidad and Tobago. Its juicy, and soft, and sweet!
But in my island, and like all other islands in the Caribbean, sugarcane was the main reason for the existence of the African slave trade. Many lives were brutally taken for hundreds of years and their toil feed the economies of colonial masters. The
