Oneika Russell Engages the Tropical Body and Caribbean Identity in Her Work

There was the outline of a face and a body with no distinguishable features, but for the eyes. Behind this figure was a city/landscape and the figure seemed to be infused with bright colorful Caribbean foliage/flowers. I was immediately intrigued by the series in which female characters were at times engorged by or hidden behind the common flowers of the Caribbean. The work in question is part of artist Oneika Russell's "A Natural History" body of work. This is a series the Jamaican-born artist ...