STATEMENT

 “Eve” as she is represented by many male artist over the years embodies the ideal image of an European woman and thus creates entry point to examine ideas of beauty and perfection.  Carnival as Mikhail Bakhtin theorizes becomes a free space to transform Eve’s image from her traditional representation. Her physical form is recreated through deformity and defilement in the time of the carnivalesque using Caribbean carnival fashion and Grotesque realism.

Utilizing the dualistic nature of the topsy turvy world of medieval carnival. Eve and the costume transcends the ideas of societal beauty and perfection. while embodying her own dualistic qualities in which she is perfect and became flawed as a result of the fall of man; the costume occupies the middle ground between eve's dualism.​

The costume is made of recycled material to emphasize the imperfection of the recreated form. The recreated body references womanhood, motherhood and Caribbean tropical flora and fauna as the Garden of Eden.
The story of Adam and Eve is referred within the entirety of my work with a distinct focus on Eve. The figure Adam becomes a prop; a part of the background which acts as a reference or he becomes the embodiment of the male gaze. A figure which is to be destroyed or ignored before we celebrate the liberation of the female body.