Title

1. Where will the Bauxite/ BS [Box-Site] end?, 2022-23. Installation, mixed media, variable parts and dimensions.

   • Linocut: 1 piece consisting of 12 boxes each 10.16cm – cubed)

   • Digital Print: a polyptych consisting of 7 photo-based prints on wood with linocut prints (6 pcs. 22.86cm x 13.67cm each, 1 pc. 40.8cm x 29.85cm)

   • Monotype: 1 piece consisting of 12 parts – circles. 3 sets of 4 (27.94cm diameter) mounted on three 50.8cm, cubed boxes )

   • 1 Flat boxes measuring 46.8cm x 37cm x 17.8cm (pre-printed)

   • Red dirt

   • 1 Sweet potato plant/vine

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Artist Statement

This installation comments on the bauxite industry in Jamaica, expressing that the benefit of bauxite mining is vastly outweighed by the cumulative loss to Jamaican citizens. Bauxite mining results in damage to and depletion of key aspects of our environment, wellbeing, natural heritage, and in some cases livelihood. Digital prints combine stills from Walker’s short film Cockpit Portal with documentary snippets surrounding the Cockpit Country mining battle, and the use of linocut and monotype printing deconstructs the issues at hand.

The bauxite topic is juxtaposed with boxes as a question and statement to how the product of erosion/mining materialises; see uses of aluminium. What is gained and what is lost? What views might arise in our efforts to quantify the impact of this industry on the environment?  

This "box-site" not only welcomes symbolic play, but uses red dirt, live flora (sweet potato vine, or colloquially: fire inna earth), and raw/unrefined surfaces/materials to ask viewers to pay attention to what is being laid bare.