GRAPES IN JAPAN

Yeah yeah because when I’m working in the farm it’s natural, nature and you could relax and you could meditate, you could be yourself you know.

PRESERVING BHARATANATYAM

May 30, 2020 In an industry filled with evolving artistic landscapes, Alana Rajah has dedicated her life to ensuring that a 2000-year-old art form flourishes in modern society. Alana has been a practitioner of Bharatanatyam, a form of Indian Classical Dance, for more than 20 years. As the founder of the Adavallan Art Academy in […]

THE LONE WANDER

The Designer Island Instagram Profile Series features the work of Caribbean photographers who use Instagram thoughtfully as a means to display their work, show their lives and travels or to make a statement about the Caribbean as they see it. We’re kicking it off today with a profile of Marlon James, a Kingston-born photographer whose work […]

…ONLY THE FOREST IS REAL.

Sometimes in the bush, you find things you did not know you were looking for. Sometimes it’s courage, laughter, wonder or pain. Sometimes it’s seeing parts of yourself that you did not know were even there. Something about walking, climbing, falling, getting up, all surrounded by wet green, not knowing how much further you have […]