The beginning of the Dreevay series coincided with Trinidad and Tobago’s first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic and for the first time we were allowed as a society to slow down and take a few steps back. While for some there was this feeling of trammel, I found myself almost being grateful for this moment of stagnation. 
In examining facets of my life and the relationships I had accumulated, the work in its very nature is an ongoing unpacking and reevaluation of lived experiences. Drawing inspiration from Homer’s The Odyssey and stories of Greek mythology this series aims to speak towards a journey of introspection and by extension becoming. By donning the titles of heroes and gods it allows for translation of language and a means of masquerade. In mounting the strengths and in some cases weaknesses of the characters whom I embody throughout the work, I contemplate the similarities of our circumstances and the results of our actions.
Each piece is an inquiry into the extent of one’s power as the protagonist of their own story and are mediums by which the notions of loneliness and vulnerability that exist in the process of looking can be confronted.