‘The morning after.’ Kavir Mootoo, 2018. Acrylic on stretched canvas. 18″ x 24″ (ready to hang) (*SOLD*)

This was done after Trinidad’s first Gay Pride parade in Aug 2018. Images from the parade were all over Facebook the next day – a Sunday – and while having feelings of great triumph, excitement and of being ALIVE, I also felt the stress of years of frustration and struggle and heaviness. I had to deal with these intense feelings and not being able to do so with words or thoughts, I did so on canvas.

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