DESIGNLAB:Adele Todd projects - welcome to my ArtDesign journey

SPATIAL consciousness WHAT does SPACE * mean? * This Performance shows the labor of work. The viewer can see what physical effort looks like in a working day. Is it empty? What fills it? Sight….Sound…..is it Light?….is it Heavy? …how do you Define the spaces you enter? …. what do you look at or feel ? …How conscious are you about THE ROOM? Performing the STATE This is a larger statement. In Trinidad and Tobago ‘ the State ’ is the biggest vehicle of control. Our government is the major employer of its citizens. We observe what IS Performance within the State? Is it by rote? Is it conscious? Is it healthy? How do we as citizens support a LIVING Space? SOCIAL JUSTICE Aesthetics helps answer the question. - When we are all invested - and this must go beyond a salary, - it must go past herd thinking - when we think as a Group understanding that WE ALL MATTER, - we support the same Goals and Intentions - there is Fairness and Equity - then and only then can we feel SEEN HEARD RESPECTED. T...

BLUE DEVIL Ceramics I don’t make ceramics. I don’t make them because when I was in College and did it for a year, it consumed me. I can spend all, alllllll of my time making, coiling, building, glazing , whatever! I would do nothing else and I want to do many other things too. So I reign in my behavior by creating lots of drawings and sketches of things I want to eventually produce. I finally found Greta Joachim . Her studio is filled with bowls, plates, jugs - and she serves everything she offers on her gorgeous wares. It was love at first sight when I drew out my images and then took the trip to see her space to then draw, score, puncture and texturize the plates. I also got the added bonus of buying a few of her pieces too. Blue Devils is the beginning of a larger collection of Trinidad and Tobago Folklore that I would like to see in our tourism sector. detail on plate plate with chamber pot shaped mug group of plates with mug detail This was the first thing that Greta made for m...

The pejorative word PANTYMAN (2021) is derived from street slang meaning an effeminate or hen-pecked man. A man whom a woman dominates. This singular piece was made for a group show titled DUALITY - Y Gallery - Woodbrook Port-of-Spain. This is an interactive work. The viewer must move their bodies to ‘read’ the piece. The quilt is a symbol of nurturing, safety and warmth. The loose threads symbolize the unraveling of that safety. We generally expect men to be ”men” with all that is implied. Both historically in Literature and the Arts a man is portrayed as physically strong and a provider and protector of women and children. This plays into our psyche’s so deeply that for many, we are completely unaware of how much our stereotyping of the male sex confuses boys as they grow to manhood. I hope that my piece shall inspire those who interact with it. I also hope that by viewing the individual words that one will take the opportunity to consider when they themselves have perhaps used ter...