ANIMATION - RESONANT BODIES
Resonant Bodies is a collection of time-based works that extend my interest in movement, rhythm and cultural storytelling into the digital field. These looping animations and experimental gifs reinterpret dancehall choreography and Jamaican visual language through sequences of hand-drawn frames, using motion to highlight gestural cues and directions that can be read as much as they are watched.
As with my paintings, the body remains central: a site of performance, resistance and memory. Each work treats dance not as fleeting spectacle but as a set of signs and strategies, layered with the histories of resistance and invention that shape Jamaican culture. The loop functions as both form and metaphor, echoing the riddim of dancehall while underscoring how culture circulates, mutates and reappears across platforms and geographies.
By bringing the language of dancehall into digital motion, Resonant Bodies explores what happens when embodied knowledge is reframed in pixels, isolated, intensified, magnified, fragmented, and set into new circuits of visibility and interpretation.
Roun Caana, hand drawn frame animation
On view: National Gallery Jamaica, Kingston — Sept 2025 to March 2026
Clip from Dancehall Moments, hand drawn frame animation
On view: National Gallery West, Montego Bay — April to August 2025
Issa Party, hand drawn frame animation
Butterfly, hand drawn & painted frame animation