Fire on Sugar Mountain: Memories of a Hidden History

A patchwork textile piece combined with spoken word poetry that explores memories of my childhood home. Antigua is an island that was once scattered with sugar cane plantations, including the land I grew up on, in which my family coincidentally named Sugar Mountain. Growing up, I experienced it as a mystical jungle wonderland, but now I reflect on its unknown and undeniably painful history of the African slaves that laboured on the lands before it became my home. What if their spirits continue to live on in through the trees of Sugar Mountain? What stories would they tell if only I listened close enough? This work journeys through notions of struggle, mystery and hope as I imagine a history untold.