This amazing episode spotlights the life, loss, and art of Katrina Coombs. She is a Jamaican woman and superbly talented textile and fiber artist. For our talk, we sat inside the rich, comfort of soft yellow carpet and suspended red fiber art in an un-doored room on the ground level of the National Gallery of Jamaica. Katrina Coombs’s 2022 Kingston Biennial art installation is titled “Apocalypse: Lifting of the Veil" and it is a full-sensory experience featuring acrylic yarn, paper, metal, music, video projections, testimony, and an olfactory infusion. If you're in Jamaica, please make your way to the National Gallery of Jamaica to see her installation before the exhibit closes on December 31, 2022.
Heads up: This episode comes with a trigger warning. This episode will discuss child loss (abortion, miscarriage, stillbirth).
Follow Katrina Coombs via her website: https://katrinacoombs.wordpress.com or on Instagram at @duchesskcfibres.
*Statistics shared on this episode are sourced from the WHO https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/abortion
**Visit the National Gallery of Jamaica's website for more information on the 2022 Kingston Biennial: https://nationalgalleryofjamaica.wordpress.com