Title: Landscape
Material: Acrylic, Spray enamel, Photo copies
Date: 2009

Title: Buy One, Get One Free.
Material: Acrylic, Spray Enamel.
Date: 2010

Title: Cable TV
Material: Beer Cans, Champagne, Sticks, Cardboard, Tape. Acrylic.
Date: 1990.

Title: Dr. Gachet.
Material: Sand Shifter, Tooth Brush, Cup, Plastic, Tape, Glue, Acrylic, Oil Pastelle
Date: 1980

Title: Fete Until 5:55.
Material: Wood, Acrylic, Photo Copy.
Date: 1994.

Title: A Funny Looking Aztec Thing.
Material: Teak, Metal.
Date: 2010.

Title: Part of the Gesture Installation 1995.
Material: Ply Board, Paper, Enamel Paint.
Date: 1995

Title: Untitled, Part of the Gestures Installation.
Material: Ply Board, Enamel Paint, Paper.
Date: 1995

Title: Untitled, Part of the Gestures Installation.
Material: Ply Board, Enamel Paint, Paper.
Date: 1995

Title: Untitled, Part of the Gestures Installation.
Material:Ply Board, Enamel Paint, Paper.
Date: 1995

DArlen Projects.

This end up here when ah was talking to Nicollette and she tell meh, yuh have a web site or wha and ah say nah, she say it easyyyyyyyyyyyyyy man, to set up ah blog dat yuh could show yuh wok.

So Boom, Bam, some verification call and ting and I'm here with the DArlen Projects Blog.

I guess DA Blog will be about the artist, the projects and the mission we are embarking on presenting art and design. In a more interwoven way in our society. Letting that society understand what that means.

How lamentable as an artist it is to see that our contribution to the quality of life has been so dismal. Only a chosen few have been able to feel the enormous wealth that comes from the enlightenment of culture.

It is the ideal that art and design be part of the living body and the space it embodies. It about finding the real body, rather impaling upon the body a set of rules that have recolonized the body, through a globalization paradigm that we have fallen for, hook line and sinker.

The idea is, can we rethink our art and design philosophical content or have we ever reconsidered that we have one.

The projects that we're to embark on will explore these arguments. On the one there is the group that believes that we belong to the world and must use all the available information to re-enforce our own peculiar brand of art and design.

The other argument is there exist an indigenous art and design philosophy, inherent within and we must allow for it to be part of the discourse and flourish alongside the pervasive global discourse.

DArlen Projects is about finding that which is art and design in us. As we go along I will show that we do have that which is indigenous. According to David Hammon, African American Artist.

"EVERYTHING IS A THIRTY OF A SECOND OF AN INCH OFF".

He said this concerning African American style. We have this same phenomenon going here within the Caribbean and very evident here in Trinidad and Tobago.

Some have also attributed our colonial political history of French, Spanish, English. Our ethnic mixtures of East Indian, African,Portuguese, Chinese, Caucasian, Syrian and Lebanese for our "freeness" in our design heritage.

Cause the art system here is dysfunctional, the canvass belongs to the streets. There are some much possibilities there for art and design. We must find ways to tell our stories there........ allowing for the exploration of radical economical, social and political alternatives through intellectual deliberation and philosophical growth.

It is here through the constant we will find a little glimmer of the real skin that covers our real body politic.

Well that is the story here.

Dean Arlen
Artist