Written piece
Islands Knitted Together
Charmaine Bissessar
Trinidad and Tobago
About this piece
This short quilt/tile, represents my nomadic academic movement from one island to another. It shows that my identity is woven from this indelible fabric of oceans. IT also reflects my sense of belonging and the stitched-together memories of my time in each island.
From Trinidad's dark grey sand
to the pristine white shores of Turks and Caicos
to Bermuda's pink-tinted coastline, echoing the painted houses
and Guyana's brackish, gold water
I wove an indelible quilt of Caribbean diasporic memories,
Knitting movement through oceans of vibrancy and vivid colours,
Resonating the love, and laughter I carry...