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One of the reasons that I started Gallery Yuhself has been to also introduce the reader to people who are actually working in alternative ways in Trinidad and Tobago. I have already interviewed Richard Rawlins, an Art Director who pushes the boundaries of design through his magazine and art projects. James Hackett who is an illustrator, designer and carnival maker. The third person is Alicia Milne, an artist working in a variety of media. Her blog reads like a personal diary and her insight into ways of seeing and creating is extremely refreshing.
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Alicia Milne
http://intriguingthings.blogspot.com/



I chose to ask Alicia to send me a paragraph explaining her work instead of doing an interview. She kindly obliged with the following missive-:

I am finding it very interesting making work these days. I always found it to be a bit of a struggle to get into a groove of producing but once I got to that physical and mental space I can get into a state of continuous and constant production. While I was still at school I now realize I was afforded the luxary of having a space and time set aside just for me by my family as I was a student so I suppose they believed I needed my 'study time'. Now that I have recently left my job to have a go at my work full time it is even more of a struggle! My living situation makes it very difficult to work without interruption. It is extremely challenging to make work when one seems to be in an almost perpetual state of interruption. But somehow I can push through it (sometimes!).

I am consciously trying to separate the thinking about the work and the making of the work. I am finding that if I talk too much about ideas and try to justifly, legetimize and contextuilize the work I get too intimidated by it. I am doing the making and then step back and think, discuss. It's valid because I have made it. Sure the talk is a very important aspect but at the end of the day if I have not produced all I am left with is just talk.