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The future’s bright for the Orange Economy By ALESHA CADET Tribune Features Reporter acadet@tribunemedia.net “CRAFTS for every occasion” is the business motto of Okelle Pugh, who strives to put a smile on all her customers’ faces as well as foster the ‘Orange Economy’ of the Bahamas. While many struggled to keep their businesses going during the pandemic, Okelle said 2020 was, to her surprise, her brand’s most successful year to date. Her company, Stems, specialises in cake toppers and other celebratory décor items, and most recently, in greeting cards as well. “When the pandemic rolled in, I thought that would really set me back with the goals I’m trying to reach, and that no one would care about a cake topper for a while. Little did I know, 2020 was the most successful year Stems has ever had. The little details matter for an intimate party, and I’m so happy that so many people chose my artwork to enhance their celebrations,” she told Tribune Weekend. Her medium of choice is cardstock paper, but she also works with acrylics, plexiglass, paint, beads, sequins and wood. Her biggest sellers, however, remain her cake and cupcake toppers. And here’s how she makes those: “The piece has to first be created digitally, then cut out with a cutting machine that cuts the graphic exactly how it was created digitally. The assembly part is what I find to be most crucial to my overall product. To assemble, I use hot glue, tacky glue and two-sided tape. I’m a perfectionist, so when I’m done, if it doesn’t look exactly like I envision, then it’s back to the drawing board,” she said. “When I began, I started by making paper flowers, then I began making cake and cupcake toppers, and now Stems has morphed into a business where people call and say ‘Man, I know you could do this for me’, so once I can figure out a way to get it done, which in most cases I do, I make it.” Okelle has enjoyed crafting for
most of her life. Every chance she got to create anything, whether it be for a school project or just working with a random latch or hook rug her mother always bought home from the Sewing Centre in Grand Bahama, the island where she grew up, Okelle always found the creative process a relaxing and rewarding one. “I remember in the fifth grade my teacher gave us a lesson on how to plait straw and I thought it was the most amazing thing ever. Not long after that I learned to paste costumes for Junkanoo. In high school, however, was where the art world really opened up for me. I learned to sew, make beaded jewellery, paint with watercolours, make straw bags and so many more amazing things... I think it’s fair to say that this is just one of the gifts given to me by God. My mother often says that art and craft for me began in the womb because at that time in her life she was always so motivated to create pieces of her own,” she said. Okelle also appreciates the role of being an art influencer on social media. “Imagine you on this side of the world teaching someone in Australia or Kenya how to create a Junkanoo costume from start to finish. I recently had the opportunity to do a few virtual sessions locally with people who are interested in the same type of business as Stems, and that got me motivated to do so much more. The possibilities are endless,” she said. Okelle believes it is crucial for creative entrepreneurs to stay focused on their work, now more than ever, because with each passing year, the ‘Orange Economy’, or creative economy, becomes more important to our society. “When people travel, they want to learn about the culture and the art that makes a place unique, and with social media being a platform that allows us to connect with each other regardless of what corner of the earth you are in, you just never know where your creativity may land you,” said Okelle.
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Weekend Inside
Interview 4 – 5
Attorney Caryl Lashley believes in finding peaceful and amicable ways to resolve conflicts, in court proceedings and in life.
Puzzles 6 Food 7, 8-9
Entertainment 10
Bahamian artist hosts new Tempo TV show to explore Caribbean origins of hip hop
Art 11
NAGB’s conservation efforts for sister museums impacted by Dorian
Volleyball player
Q: Beach or sofa? “Definitely the beach. I can exercise and stay active.”
Q: What will you be bingewatching? “Easy, ‘The Flash’! He’s my favourite superhero.”
Literary Lives 12 – 13
The many facets of one of the world’s most famous pop culture icons
Forgotten Facts 14
The original West Bay Street
Animals 15
The rescue of Omar, plus Pet of the Week
Gardening 16
How, when and why to prune
HONESTY pays! Just ask Bahamas Waste truck driver Shawn Adderley, who was recently surprised with a weekend stay inclusive of meals at the Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island. Back in June, Shawn recovered a piece of luggage that fell off a tour bus in-route to Lynden Pindling International Airport. The luggage was the property of an Atlantis guest who was returning to his home state of Pennsylvania. Adderley’s honesty, however, helped to save what could have been a spoiler to a beautiful vacation. The missing piece of luggage was tracked and immediately shipped to its grateful owner, but that wasn’t the end of this positive story. On the morning of August 17, Shawn was asked to leave his duties
Jesse Delancy
Q: Rum, wine, Kalik or a cocktail? “Definitely wine; a smooth drink to relax with.”
Reinventing the conch salad with fruit, plus a former civil engineer builds a doughnut empire
Truck driver rewarded for his honesty
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Q: If you could be quarantined with a celebrity who would it be? “Jay-Z. I would pick his mind to figure out how he made his billions. With that information, I’ll add my knowledge to it and figure out how to make it faster.”
and report immedo the right thing,” diately to the he said. “When the Bahamas Waste story came to our corporate office on attention, we found Gladstone Road. it absolutely outAn explanation standing that Shawn of why he had to found it in his heart return to work was to stop, pick up the not given. luggage, and ensure BAHAMAS Waste truck driver Shawn Upon walking that it was returned Adderley (left) receives a certificate of to his boss and later through the door of Bahamas Waste, appreciation and a signature Atlantis to the guest, intact. baseball cap from Gregg Skowronski, Shawn’s boss “It’s honest quickly quelled his vice president and general manager of gestures like those operations, The Royal, Atlantis. obvious concern displayed by Shawn Photo: Barefoot Marketing that sheds a positive that something serious had transpired, light on our tourism explaining that he was summoned to industry and The Bahamas as a whole. receive a surprise gift from Atlantis. It is our hope that others would take Gregg Skowronski, vice president a page out of Shawn’s book, realizing and general manager of Operations, that honesty is truly the best policy, and The Royal, surprised Shawn by preit always pays off in the long run.” senting him with a three-day two-night Francisco de Cardenas, managing stay at the newly renovated Royal and director of Bahamas Waste referred a signature Atlantis baseball cap. to the gesture offered by Atlantis as “We just wanted to thank Shawn “absolutely amazing”. Adderley as he went the extra mile to “Atlantis is such an amazing
Q: If you could take a COVID- 19 free trip, where would it be and why? “I would go to Brazil! They have amazing people and a breathtaking atmosphere with lots over tourist attractions. I would have a great time.”
corporate giver, and to recognise one of our employees is really amazing,” he said. “We would really like to thank everybody who was involved in putting this little gift together for him. Not everybody is the same, but when you do have somebody that shows this type of honestly, and ensures that the right thing is done, I applaud everybody involved for rewarding him.” Meanwhile, Shawn says he plans to make use of his 3-free stay at Atlantis very soon. He said was very surprised to receive the certificate of appreciation because he was simply being honest and doing his job by returning the lost piece of luggage. “I was on my way to the landfill and when I stopped at the light, I saw the bag in the road, so I stopped, picked up the bag and headed to the landfill to finish my work off,” Shawn explained. “When I arrived at the yard, I told my supervisor that I found a bag, and everything is history from there. I am very, very surprised and I am very happy that I got rewarded.”
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Caryl Lashley For a society to work, people have to learn methods of peaceful and amicable conflict resolution. This is where attorney Caryl Lashley comes in. She tells Cara Hunt how now more than ever – with an extremely backlogged court system and frustrations rising due to the pandemic and imminent elections – Bahamians need mediation and arbitration. CARYL Lashley has been an attorney for more than four decades and has extensive experience in litigation, family and corporate law and trust matters. However, she counts it as a success whenever she can avoid actually having to set foot in a courtroom. And that’s because as a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, she is proficient both as an arbitrator and a mediator, and saves many a client the long, difficult process of going to court. Arbitration is like the court process, as parties still provide testimony and give evidence similar to a trial, but the arbitrator makes a final decision. In mediation, the process is a negotiation with the assistance of a neutral third party. The parties do not reach a resolution unless all sides agree. For mediation to be successful, Caryl explained, both parties have to be willing to sit down with an independent person to try and reach a resolution. Caryl initially became interested in meditation back in the 1990s.
“There are a lot of differing viewpoints going around right now, particularly about getting vaccinations. Both sides feel very strongly and believe that they are right, but the key is to remain calm and to be polite in how you communicate and also to be willing to listen to what the other person is saying.”
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Friday, August 20, 2021 At the time, she was litigating two matters which she felt would have been good cases for mediation. “The whole point is that you take the matter out of the courtroom and get both sides to agree. The meditator is there to facilitate a conversation between the two parties where they can agree to a conclusion where no one admits fault or blame, but a conclusion is reached where they can both be satisfied with the final decision,” she said. “It was after those two cases that I really got interested in meditation and so I was fortunate enough to take additional classes and get qualifications.” Those qualifications included becoming a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and in 2014 she obtained an advanced certificate in Trust and Estate Mediation from STEP (the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners). Determined to encourage, educate and strive for peaceful and amicable resolutions to conflict, in 2016 she founded ADR Bahamas to provide education and stimulation for non-violent communication and conduct, and provide neutrals to facilitate conflict resolution. She said that the Bahamas definitely can benefit from more arbitration, especially when one considers just how backlogged the judiciary is and how drawn-out cases tend to be. “I think though that there has to be more education about the benefits it can have, because a lot of the time people have this idea that they want to have their day in court, but for those people who are willing, it can be a very quick and satisfying processes,” she said. Arbitration, Caryl said, has definitely changed her mindset. “It has caused me to look forward and not backward,” she said. The way arbitration works is that both sides first agree that they are open to the process and that whatever happens during the process will be confidential. “That is important, so that in the event that the matter does not get resolved, one person can’t go before a judge and say, ‘Well, you said that’, or ‘You promised this’. The meditator is a neutral party and is there to ensure that no one gets out of hand and the discussion can take place civilly. Once a decision is reached, both parties sign off on it and then the agreement is presented to a judge,” she explained. Caryl added that the courts tend to be very favourable towards meditation and in many cases will encourage parties to try mediation before court proceedings. She also finds that the skills required for meditation can also be helpful in daily communication. The simple act of fully listening to what another person is saying can lead to more productive dialogue. This is especially true in the current environment. Not only are people dealing with the frustrations brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, but they are also about to enter election season. “There are a lot of differing viewpoints going around right now, particularly about getting vaccinations. Both sides feel very strongly and believe that they are right, but the key is to remain calm and to be polite in how you communicate and also to be willing to listen to what the other person is saying,” Caryl advised. One tip she also suggested is to avoid trigger
words that will entice conflict. “You want to be careful how you use words such as ‘always’ and ‘never’, like ‘you always do this’ or ‘you never do that’, because that has a negative connotation, especially when you are talking with people who are already frazzled. We need to be very careful of the language that we use,” she said. Caryl’s civic memberships include the Nassau Chapter of The Links, Incorporated, where
“You want to be careful how you use words such as ‘always’ and ‘never’, like ‘you always do this’ or ‘you never do that’, because that has a negative connotation, especially when you are talking with people who are already frazzled. We need to be very careful of the language that we use.”
she was the charter president; the Public Hospitals Authority Medical Ethics Committee; Elizabeth Estates Children’s Home, where she is a board member; the public education and resource committee on HIV/AIDS, as well as the AIDS Foundation of the Bahamas, where she served as president for five years. Last, but not least, she is a wife and the mother of two adult sons.
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Reinventing and perfecting the conch salad
CONCH king Harry Bannister. Photo: I Promise Media By JEFFARAH GIBSON Tribune Features Writer jgibson@tribunemedia.net IN THEORY it’s one of the easiest native dishes to make, not to mention one of the most delectable: the Bahamian conch salad. However, many Bahamians still can’t get it quite right. No matter what they do, they can’t replicate the taste of the conch salad from their favourite local vendor. So what’s the secret? Well, depending on who you ask, there is a certain rhythm to putting together conch salad - a rhythm that is subject to what vegetables are used, how they are cut, their thickness, the amount that is used. This all has an
effect on the outcome of the dish. For example, more sweet peppers than tomatoes, or the complete absence of latter, majorly influences how the salad will taste. Adding conch skin to the batch can also change the texture of the salad. And of course, there are the allimportant spices to consider. Conch salad is not just throwing together some veggies (and maybe some fruit) and tossing in some conch and calling it a day. No, when it comes to this beloved down-home dish, it’s the little things that count, according to Harry Bannister, an expert in the trade who has made hundreds, if not thousands, of conch salads standing behind the stall at Goldie’s Conch House at Arawak Cay.
And Harry can be trusted. His conch dish, guests can attest, has the right combination of ingredients and flavour. Harry, who has been in the restaurant industry for decades, is also one of the original creators of the tropical conch salad, which over the past few years has exploded in popularity. A traditional conch salad can feature a mix of vegetables such as tomatoes, onions, sweet peppers, sometimes cucumber, and celery. A tropical conch salad, however, has to include fruit, mainly mango and pineapple, to earn its title. Some adventurous individuals have even gone so far as to add apples and strawberries to the mix. “Myself, along with another conch salad vendor by the name of Tyrone, started experimenting with conch salad,” Harry told Tribune Weekend. “It started to get boring. Some of the people that came to the stall were trying things and eating conch salad with crackers and what not. But that’s not how it’s supposed to be eaten. So we decided to just experiment with different fruits just to see how it would taste. We tried it with mango,
pineapple, strawberry, and even peach. But it was the mango and pineapple that was a hit.” Though he claims to be one of the original creators of the dish, Harry says it’s not his favourite way to enjoy conch salad. “My favourite is the old-fashioned scorch conch with plenty pepper. Even a scorch with boil skin in it...we call that the dirty scorch conch,” he said. Harry will gladly teach guests at Goldie’s all the different ways to make conch salad. He simply takes them to the conch deck and demonstrates. There, patrons learn the proper way to shell conch, how to clean it with lime, the proper technique to dice veggies, and the right method to put it all together to ensure that it tastes delicious.
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art
NAGB’s conservation efforts for sister museums impacted by Dorian TWO years ago, when the all-clear was given significant damage, the artwork “looked like it had on September 3, 2019, hours after Hurricane just come from the framing shop”. As Roshanne Dorian had finally abandoned course in Grand explained, it was a combination of luck and prepBahama, the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas aration: “A few days before the storm, Ritchie (NAGB), was already hard at work responding to decided to pack up all of the artwork and put them the needs of survivors and the general public. in bubble wrap and cardboard boxes in one section Committed to putting the needs of the nation of the gallery. Surprisingly, all of the other doors ahead of its own, the NAGB readily offered its (in the gallery) gave, but not that door.” facilities and networks to The next stop on the SCRI’s art tour was assist with relief efforts, prothe Wyannie Malone Museum viding a donation site and in Elbow Cay. Opened in 1978, hosting fundraising events. the museum quickly became To particularly assist its a top attraction for visitors three sister museums devasto Hope Town. Housing and tated by Dorian, the NAGB exhibiting artefacts, documents, promptly coordinated conserarchives and other records vation efforts for the Minnis that date back to the 1800s, the Gallery in Marsh Harmuseum has spent the last 40 bour, the Wyannie Malone years preserving and honouring Museum in Elbow Cay and Abaco’s history and culture. the Albert Lowe Museum in In the aftermath of Dorian, Green Turtle Cay. the museum was faced with NAGB’s former executive contaminated water tanks, a director, Amanda Coulson submerged fire safe and major was able to get in touch with damage to the floors and roof. the Smithsonian’s Cultural As the museum’s only Rescue Initiative (SCRI), a employee, Marjorie Chapman division of the Smithsonian didn’t have the capacity to fix Institution in Washington, DC, anything right away. The goal dedicated to helping American was simply to prevent further and international communities damage from occurring. In preserve their identities and hisfact, by the time the NAGB tory in the face of disaster. and SCRI came some two Eager to lend its knowledge months later, the museum THE MINNIS Gallery in Marsh and expertise to the NAGB was still “very much in its raw state”. Harbour, Abaco, before and and the Antiquities, MonuImportantly, however, the knowledge after Hurricane Dorian hit. ments and Museum Corporation and expertise they brought gave the (AMMC), the SCRI scheduled museum hope. site visits for late October 2019 to conduct initial The third and final gallery the SCRI team toured assessments and make timely recommendations. was the Albert Lowe Museum in Green Turtle Cay. Between October 30 and November 1, 2019, a Established by local artist Alton Lowe and named team made up of SCRI conservators, and NAGB after his father, Albert Lowe, the museum has been and AMMC staff, toured the affected museums a landmark in the cay’s historic district, New Plymand historic sites. outh, since 1976. The first historic museum in the One of the first stops was the Minnis Gallery in Bahamas, it had acquired an extensive collection Marsh Harbour. Run by Roshanne Minnis-Eyma, of antiques, artefacts, photographs and documents daughter of Bahamian music and art icon Eddie over the last five decades that brought to life hunMinnis, and her husband and fellow artist, Ritchie dreds of years of local and national history. Housed Eyma, the gallery was just beginning to grow its in a 150-year-old Loyalist home - one of the few partnerships and expand its programming when structures to survive the 1932 Abaco hurricane Dorian hit. - the Albert Lowe Museum is an architectural Crouched in a bathtub for five hours with marvel. Constructed using traditional boat-buildthree others during the storm, Roshanne and ing techniques, it sustained roof and water damage, Ritchie were certain all their paintings had been but remained largely intact after the storm. destroyed. But when their landlord sent word that When the SCRI team arrived to assess the the artwork was unscathed, the pair found them- museum, they brought dehumidifiers and personal selves on the same flight to Marsh Harbour as the protective equipment to help volunteers safely SCRI team who readily offered to assist. strip the walls and salvage what was left. Thanks to The family’s original paintings, all 25 of them, Chris Dale, a second homeowner and close friend had survived. While the gallery itself had sustained of the museum’s, 40 of Alton’s paintings had been
secured before the storm. But cardboard boxes were only a temporary fix. The paintings had to be removed and stacked in such a way that air would pass through, or else mould would set in. This basic yet critical conservation technique was the kind of information the affected museums needed access to, and the NAGB was resolved to get it. Everywhere the team went, they tried to leave behind as much information as possible, so that “any one of those institutions could help the community”. Recognising the impact of these efforts, a member of the NAGB’s curatorial team, Richardo Barrett, is now being trained to serve as an on-site conservator. To further assist the affected museums, the SCRI sent supplies and instructions on how to conserve the works to the NAGB this past November. The aim was for the museums to have everything in hand early last year, but when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, coordinating shipping from the SCRI’s headquarters in DC proved difficult. Given the pace of recovery efforts in Abaco, however, the delay went largely unnoticed. For the Wyannie Malone Museum, for example, the supplies are “very valuable…things that we will definitely need and are very glad to have,” but cannot be utilised until the building’s electrical and plumbing repairs are complete.” Sadly, the Minnis Gallery has fared much worse; it’s no closer to being opened than it was in the initial aftermath of the storm. While the space the Minnises had was cleaned up, according to Ritchie, “it’s still a wreck ‘cause the owners (of the building) didn’t have insurance”. With no physical presence in Abaco, the family spent the latter part of last year revamping the gallery website in hopes of improving its online presence. Because Abaco was such a “beautiful, inspirational, motivational setting” for them as artists, Roshanne and Ritchie would love nothing more than to return to Marsh Harbour. The Albert Lowe Museum, like much of Green Turtle Cay, has made some progress. The museum’s furniture (circa 1860/1880) has to be replaced, but most of the rudimentary repairs are complete. As the museum continues to rebuild, Green Turtle native and museum liaison Leanne Russell believes there’s no better time to support and promote art education. To support the NAGB and its sister museums in Abaco, please visit: • https://nagb.org.bs/membership • https://albertlowemuseum.com/donate/ • https://www.hopetownmuseum.com/ support-the-museum. html To support the Minnis Family Gallery, please consider purchasing original works and/or prints from their website: https://octagon-glockenspieljc64.squarespace.com/
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literary lives - Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
The many facets of a pop culture icon - Part II Sir Christopher Ondaatje continues to write about the American artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. “We live in an age when the traditional great subjects – the human form, the landscape, even newer traditional subjects such as abstract expressionism – are daily devalued by commercial art.” - Andy Warhol IN THE early 1960s, pop art was an experimental art form that several artists adopted: Roy Lichtenstein, followed by abstract expressionists William de Kooning, Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist and Robert Rauschenberg. Andy Warhol was known as the “Pope of Pop” and his first paintings were displayed in April 1961 as the backdrop for Bonwit Teller’s window display in New York. The gallerist Muriel Latow first came up with the idea of soup cans for Warhol. He wrote a cheque for $50 for the idea. A 1964 Large Campbell’s Soup Can was sold at Sothebys in 2007 to a South American collector for $7.4 million. As his fame grew, Warhol hired several assistants to produce his silk-screen adaptations. He was fascinated by celebrities, painted them, and gradually developed his style, slowly eliminating the basic projection of his subjects on his final platform. He directed his assistants to make different versions and variations. “Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?” - Andy Warhol Warhol produced both comic and serious works – a soup can or an electric chair. He used the same techniques whether he painted celebrities, everyday objects, or images of suicide or car crashes, as in the 1962 – 1967 Death and Disaster series. One of these paintings, the diptych Silver Car Crash became his highest priced work when it sold at Sothebys on November 13, 2013, for $105.4 million. Warhol refused to explain his work: “All you need to know about the work is already there on the surface.”
ANDY Warhol and, below, his first self-portrait (1963-4) sold at auction in New York for $38.4 million. Photo: Sothebys London A self-portrait by Andy Warhol, done in 1963 – 1964, sold in New York at the May Post-War and Contemporary evening sale in Christies for $38.4 million. On May 9, 2012, his painting Double Elvis (Ferus Type) sold at auction at Sothebys in New York for $33 million. The painting (silkscreen and spray paint on canvas) shows Elvis in a gunslinger pose. It was first exhibited in 1963 at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. Warhol went on to make twenty-two versions of Double Elvis, nine of which are held in museums. In November 2014, Triple Elvis sold for $81.9 million at an auction in New York. ••• Between 1963 and 1968 Warhol made sixty films, as well as another five hundred short black-and-white “screentest” portraits of visitors to his studio, The Factory. He attended the 1962 premiere of the Statiz composition by Le Monte Young
called Trio for Strings, following which he created his famous series of static films. Filmmaker Jonas Mekas, who accompanied Warhol to the Trio premiere, claims Warhol’s static films were directly inspired by the performance. One of his most famous films, Sleep, monitors poet John Giorno sleeping for six hours. Another film, Empire (1964), consists of eight hours of footage of the Empire State Building in New York City at dusk. His film Eat consists of a man eating a mushroom for forty-five minutes. Batman Dracula is a 1964 film that was produced and directed by Andy Warhol, without permission of DC Comics. It was only screened at his art exhibitions. “It’s the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.” - Andy Warhol
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Friday, August 20, 2021 Warhol’s 1965 film Vinyl is an adaptation of Anthony Burgess’ dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange. He was always looking for new ideas and opportunities that he could create. Another of his critically successful films was Chelsea Girls (1966). It was a highly innovative film that consisted of two 16 mm-films being projected simultaneously with two different stories shown together. The sound would be raised in one film and lowered in the other so that it could elucidate the first. The many images seemed to replicate Warhol’s early 1960 silk-screen creations. Warhol was a great fan of Radley Metzger’s film work and said that his firm The Lickerish Quartet was “an outrageously kinky masterpiece”. Warhol’s film Blue Movie (1968) portrayed Warhol superstar Viva making love in bed with Louis Waldon – another Warhol superstar. It was his last film as a director and was shown publicly in New York in 2005. The first time in thirty years. After the 1968, shooting at The Factory, a reclusive Warhol relinquished his involvement in filmmaking. His assistant director took over the film-making business at the Factory and directed these films more towards mainstream cinematography. Andy Warhol’s Dracula and Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein were two of these films and were much more mainstream than anything Warhol would have attempted. After Warhol’s death his films were slowly restored by the Whitney Museum and are occasionally projected at museums and film festivals. “My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat – or in film’s case ‘run on’ – manifest my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.” Andy Warhol ••• Warhol produced music too. He adopted the band Velvet Underground and made them a crucial element of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable
multimedia performance art “I met him a couple of show. Warhol, together with times, but we seldom shared Paul Morrissey who acted as more than platitudes...He the band’s manager, dressed wanted to be very superficial. the band all in black and And seemingly emotionless, made them perform, someindifferent, just like a dead times with Nico, in front fish.” of the movies that he was - David Bowie presenting. He produced their first album The Velvet The band Triumph also Underground and Nico and wrote a song about Andy designed their record album. Warhol, “Stranger In a Warhol’s involvement simply Strange Land” in their 1984 paid for the band’s studio album Thunder Seven. time. Warhol and the band leader disagreed with the ••• direction the band should take, and the relationship Warhol produced sevended. After Warhol’s death, eral unbound portfolios of The Velvet Underground his work. The first of sevband members Lou Reed and John Cale re-united to WARHOL’s ‘Triple Elvis’ painting sold for $81.9 eral bound self-published books by Warhol was 25 Cats release Songs for Drella – a million at an auction in New York in 2014 Named Sam and One Blue tribute to Warhol. Warhol designed many record album covers Pussy printed in 1954. The original issue was limstarting with This is John Walllowitch!!! (1964); ited to one hundred and ninety. An original was The Rolling Stones album Sticky Fingers (1971) auctioned in May 2006 for US $35,000 by Doyle and Love you Live (1977); the two John Cale New York. Other self-published books by Warhol albums The Academy in Peril (1972) and Honi include: A Gold Book, Wild Raspberries, and Holy Soit (1981). One of Warhol’s last covers was a por- Cats. His book A La Recherche du Shoe Perdu trait of Aretha Franklin for her 1986 gold album was published in 1955 and marked his transition from commercial to gallery artist. After gaining Aretha. Warhol influenced the punk rock band Devo, as fame he wrote several books that were published well as David Bowie, who recorded a song “Andy commercially: a, A Novel (1968); The Philosophy Warhol” for his 1971 album Hunky Dory. Lou of Andy Warhol (from A to B and Back Again) Reed, the band leader of The Velvet Underground, (1975); Popism: The Warhol Sixties (1980); and wrote the song “Andy’s Chest” about Valerie Sola- The Andy Warhol Diaries (1989). Warhol created the fashion magazine Interview nas, who shot Andy Warhol in 1968. He recorded it with The Velvet Underground and it was released in 1969 that is still published today. To produce his original silkscreens Warhol made in 1985. Bowie later actually played Warhol in the photographs, or had them made, by his friends and 1996 movie Basquiat. assistants. These pictures were mostly taken with a specific model of Polaroid camera, The Big Shot, that Polaroid kept in production especially for Warhol. This photographic approach to painting had an enormous effect on artistic photography. Warhol was a very gifted photographer. It was his incredible eye and judgement that created a whole incredibly successful artistic wave. “The silver moon has long since set, the spoon recycled in the blue bin. The foil has tarnished, the ‘new’ Factory dining room, scene of lunches ... has closed its high double doors. Art has become an essential, not a caprice, all too often a trivialised version of Andy’s originality ...” - Nicky Haslam The Impatient Pen
THE DIPTYCH ‘Silver Car Crash’ sold at Sothebys for $105.4 million in 2013.
Warhol’s will stipulated that his entire estate, except for a few modest family legacies, would go to create a foundation dedicated to the advancement of visual arts. • Sir Christopher Ondaatje is the author of The Last Colonial. He acknowledges that he has quoted liberally from Wikipedia; Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up (1990) by Bob Colacello; The Genius of Andy Warhol (2009) by Tony Scherman and David Dalton; Warhol: The Biography (2009) by V. Bockris; and The Impatient Pen (2019) by Nicky Haslam.
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history
The original West Bay Street
PAUL C ARANHA
FORGOTTEN FACTS
MY wife and I moved into our then new home on January 7, 1987 and moved out on August 10, 2021. We now live in a bungalow where I no longer have climb 32 steps to get to my study. What a pleasure that is. Now, when I go for short walks, I use the streets of a totally different section of Lyford Cay. This morning, I pointed out to a friend the remains of the old West Bay Street, where it used to run through what is now the golf course. My friend is too young to remember this part of the island as it was when E P Taylor created today’s gated community in the 1960s and he questioned my calling the old road West Bay Street.
Why? Because the road signs at the Old Fort roundabout claim that West Bay Street stops when it reaches that roundabout, and the Western Road starts on the other side. Even Google Maps uses the name Western Road for the road from the Old Fort roundabout to Clifton. Being a nitpicker, I claim that West Bay Street continues past West Bay (where Jaws Beach is), all the way to Clifton. I know it’s hard to realise just how much the roads have changed in more modern years, but a roundabout (what I often call by its Swahili name - a ‘keep-lefty’) is a very recent addition to the original layout. Before the RAF built Windsor Field
in the 1940s, today’s Windsor Road (connecting the airfield to West Bay Street) did not exist, so there was no logical reason to change the name at Old Fort (which was a private residence not a community of many families), My article on July 30 contained a much-altered version of my father’s 1926 map of New Providence. Today, I offer only the western portion of the island, on which I have highlighted (with arrows) Old Fort and Blake Road. Hopefully, this will make it easier to see how the roads once were. • For questions and comments, please send an e-mail to islandairman@gmail.com
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animals
The rescue of
Omar the pup Animal matters | KIM ARANHA
EARLIER this week, a small potcake was cowering behind a garbage can trying to escape his tormentors - a band of young boys who pelted the poor defenceless animal with the stones and hit him with sticks in a juvenile attempt to throw him into the garbage can. Fortunately, they were unsuccessful and somebody who witnessed the horrific “Lord of the Flies” type behaviour had the wherewithal to call in the Bahamas Humane Society. Our ambulance driver Omar was immediately dispatched and the poor abused and bewildered animal was rescued from the torment that a band of boys on an evil mission are capable of inflicting. It is a scenario with slight variations that plays out in this country of ours way too often. We return to the age-old lament that empathy and compassion are not qualities that we see very often in the Bahamas, be it between humans or towards defenceless animals. So we sit back and heave an indignant sigh of disgust, we despair, we question how this has come to be and then… Most people will not pursue the issue further: other problems will come to mind - COVID, Afghanistan, earthquake in Haiti, fires in California, floods in Europe, and the image of this poor little animal cowering behind a trash can being beaten by mere children (perhaps just around the corner from
PET OF THE WEEK
A hero to help with your cuddle By The Bahamas Humane Society
WHILE not quite a hero like his namesake from the “Sailor Moon” mangas and anime series,
you) rapidly recedes into a dim memory. And the trend is allowed to continue. We were told that the boys had been instructed to “get rid of the dog”. I wonder by who and why. What possible crime could this small animal have committed to deserve such treatment? What did the person who gave those instructions actually expect the boys to do? Is it even possible that the kids had befriended the animal and then turned on the poor confused dog when told to get rid of it? A remarkably thin veneer of affection! Let’s take a step or two back and look at this story: so much about it is wrong. Why on earth did the dog need getting rid of? Perhaps he was begging for food. Since when is being hungry a sin? But then again, think: do we worry sufficiently about hungry humans? Why did they not contact the Bahamas Humane Society as the first step? However, far worse than this, why were these boys OK with violently aggressing a poor little dog? I have a theory that violence breeds violence, aggression breeds aggression. These boys may well have been the victims of aggressive violence at home: a father wielding a belt or worse. If it’s OK for a big man to wallop and beat a child, why should that child think it is wrong to hit and hurt a smaller dog? You learn by example, and there is far too much aggression and physical violence.
Tuxedo Mask is always trying to be helpful and sociable with any humans that come his way. He’s friendly with the other cats at the Bahamas Humane Society but he wants you to appreciate that he’ll probably be first in your lap when you sit down, and he might want to hold a conversation with you! Tuxedo Mask is young, probably just a year or so old, so he’s past those high-strung kitten antics but still playful. Do you need a cuddling cat in
The boys who were hurting that dog are prime candidates for any one of the many gangs that are proliferate in Nassau. How do we escape this very real problem of violence against animals? How do we teach people that all animals have the right to a life without fear? How do we remind people that it is not OK to mistreat any creature? They are not “just animals”; they are living, feeling, breathing creatures like us. I believe that kindness to animals is one of the first forms of kindness a child can learn; a child can learn how to share, how to consider others. Empathy can be learned, pets can teach kids compassion. We know that emotionally stable people need to be loved to feel complete. And anybody who tells you differently is not necessarily telling you the truth. But beyond needing to be love is the need to love and nurture. The mere knowledge that somebody depends on you for a complete and happy life is an ego builder; to be
your life? Call the BHS at 3235138 for more information or come in to meet him. Tuxedo Mask will be sure to greet you on arrival. • The BHS Thrift Shop is open. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 11am to 3pm and Saturday from 10am to 2pm. We sell gently used items to raise funds for the shelter. If you’d like to donate, we’d be grateful to accept your donation. If the shop is closed, please leave them in the main shelter. Thank you!
Photo/ Linda Gill-Aranha
needed makes people feel complete. Poor little Omar the pup (named after his rescuer) was in a desperate situation - nowhere to run and hide except for behind the garbage bin, which unbeknownst to him was actually going to be used as an instrument of torture against him. How terribly frightened he must have felt, surrounded and being physically hurt. Perhaps those misguided boys were laughing at his fear and pain. What must have going through his little mind? Utter terror; poor little guy! And then he was saved. What relief he must have felt when he was scooped up and taken to safety. You know the extraordinary thing is that he has already forgiven humans and is ready to move into a happy home where he will be loved forever. Will he remember the terror of that day? I hope not. Can those boys be saved before they do something really bad? Gosh, I hope so.
Pruning All aboutfor the gardening lychee tree tree strength Pruning methods
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GOOD day, gardeners! Pruning ByGOOD ADAM BOORMAN •Time day, gardeners! flies, can be a very important part of keepTribune Features Reporter • I yes?a Time is subjective also.garden. Had ing healthy and balanced acadet@tribunemedia.net planted isa the lychee Pruning act of(Litchi cuttingchinensis off tips, Sonn/Nephelium litchihad branches, stems parts of Cambess) athe treefirst or NOW that weorhave from seed 15 the orseason 20 years ago, I might astorm shrub, goal of strengthenofwith the pass through, have a few lychee fruit from that tree ing those remain. pruning isthat again on my to-do list in byAnyone now to enjoy. Until then, they are a who grows a good the garden. We had some small rose, trees demanding shade tree at best.pruning will know about proper getNot blown down in that (fortunately) particularly fast growing, the timing and methods. 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