Tradition (and still messing up)

A Bajan sample for Island Tour Series

Capture and mess up

In yesterday's post, I added a link to a body of work I have been developing over the last year, The Island Tour Series. I am taking this work apart to break its formulaic process of development (though not abandon it entirely). The desire to mess up my working template has stemmed from a series of observations I am currently recording and remixing.

Barbados is pear-shaped.....

The beginning of the introductory sentence in BARBADOS: A Souvenir in pictures (Published by Macmillan Education Ltd, 1989)

http://www.andreamacdonald.co.uk/selectedworks/tourguide1.htm

Re-viewing archive

BASELINE begins here....

He played on (Port of Spain) ...

February 2008 marks my second visit to Trinidad and the word baseline hasn't left my head since arriving. I'm not sure where it came from or why it's deciding to linger, but I like it. By association, the word baseline is a constant in the ideas that interest me, such as (and in no specific order) the archipelagic baseline, an audio baseline, a baseline definition and knowledge, datum lines (otherwise known as baselines), the baseline in architectural and perpective drawings...

A baseline also suggests a starting point