Overtaking the Cannon (Trinidad & Tobago), 2025
35 mm giclèe print on Baryta paper
8 inches by 20 inches
Limited Edition of 10, Signed Front
A film photograph made in situ at Fort James, Tobago. in Tobago, the artist retracted the steps of one of her ancestors, Sandy. Sandy was an Akan chieftain trafficked to Tobago. In 1770, he along with six co-conspirators started the first documented slave rebellion in Tobago. At Fort James, Sandy and his compatriots looted arms at this former military site. In the center of the image the canon, a symbol of British dominance, is subsumed by idyllic nature that currently blooms on the land in the present day. It is symbolic of the dream Sandy and many others who waged war for freedom sought to make reality.
This work is from "The Land Sings of A Dream," Niama Safia Sandy’s new series of experimental film photographs. The images offer abstracted, dream-like scenes connected to energetic resonance at indigenous and Global Black Diaspora historical sites related to liberation and cultural activity.
Overtaking the Cannon (Trinidad & Tobago), 2025
35 mm giclèe print on Baryta paper
8 inches by 20 inches
Limited Edition of 10, Signed Front
A film photograph made in situ at Fort James, Tobago. in Tobago, the artist retracted the steps of one of her ancestors, Sandy. Sandy was an Akan chieftain trafficked to Tobago. In 1770, he along with six co-conspirators started the first documented slave rebellion in Tobago. At Fort James, Sandy and his compatriots looted arms at this former military site. In the center of the image the canon, a symbol of British dominance, is subsumed by idyllic nature that currently blooms on the land in the present day. It is symbolic of the dream Sandy and many others who waged war for freedom sought to make reality.
This work is from "The Land Sings of A Dream," Niama Safia Sandy’s new series of experimental film photographs. The images offer abstracted, dream-like scenes connected to energetic resonance at indigenous and Global Black Diaspora historical sites related to liberation and cultural activity.
