Kelly Sinnapah Mary

Kelly Sinnapah Mary makes work that doesn't just transport you...she creates work that makes you see everything that is happening around us that we can't always see with our simple unmagicked plebeian eyes. Sinnapah Mary is "Afro-Caribbean but later discovered that she is a descendant of indentured workers from the South Indian state Tamil Nadu, who were brought to the Caribbean following the abolition of slavery to replace enslaved labor". I've never seen work from someone who held these identities that are often not part of the dominant narrative and oversimplified when we think about race/ethnicity.

I just love the richness of the colors, the myth and magic, her worldbuilding + storytelling, and the haunting eyes of her paintings