O’Kane’s love letter to Barbados
Gail O'Kane has spent more than 50 years pursuing a particular side of Barbados, one that lives in the weathered boards of old chattel houses and the fading colours of long-standing buildings. Her subject hides behind brightly painted shop-fronts and hand-lettered signs, in structures that have quietly watched generations pass. Her long attachment reads as a love letter to the island's ordinary, weathered architecture.
There is a particular kind of Barbados that Gail O’Kane has spent more than 50 years chasing. It lives in the weathered boards of an old chattel house. It hides behind a brightly-painted shop-front, beneath a hand-lettered sign or inside the fading colours of a building that has quietly stood witness to generations, and O’Kane […] The post O’Kane’s love letter to Barbados appeared first on nationnews.com .