268 sheets with acrylic, ink, colored ink, pencil, and colored pencil on paper, some with stamped ink, stencil, solvent transfer, and cut-and-pasted colored and painted paper
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Tropical Night is a complex, diaristic account of Cozier’s experiences in his home country and as an itinerant artist traveling throughout the Caribbean, the U.S., and the world. Forms are repeated across its individual sheets: a historical map of part of the Eastern Hemisphere—the ancestral home of many of Trinidad and Tobago’s inhabitants today; a silhouette of the parliament building in the capital, Port of Spain; dancers from Carnival celebrations; and a household bench found throughout the region. The individual drawings are reshuffled into a new order each time the work is installed. “There are narrative passages. There are moments when I see a path, and I try to run it down,” Cozier says. And yet, “Sometimes I don’t want to prescribe the reading.”
2024
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