BO­BIE-LEE DIXON

It was just last year T&T at­tor­ney Justin So­bion, a St Mary’s Col­lege alum­nus and son of late At­tor­ney Gen­er­al/Min­is­ter of Le­gal Af­fairs Kei­th So­bion, was ap­point­ed as an As­so­ciate Hu­man Rights Of­fi­cer in the Of­fice of the Pres­i­dent of the UN Hu­man Rights Coun­cil in Gene­va, Switzer­land.

To­mor­row, So­bion who is al­so a well-known artist, will stage his art ex­hi­bi­tion “I’m from the Caribbean” to a Swiss au­di­ence and Caribbean di­as­po­ra at Life of Art Stu­dio, Gene­va, Switzer­land.

The se­ries will show­case 25 orig­i­nal pieces of the artist’s work and will il­lus­trate his trade­mark splash­ing colours fused to­geth­er with poignant in­flu­ences from the re­gion where he was born and raised.

So­bion says, “I’m from the Caribbean” is a nos­tal­gic jour­ney, which will take for­eign art lovers from the pris­tine Ama­zon rain forests in Guyana, to my home­land Trinidad, the Spice Isle Grena­da, the isles up north, then straight to the Greater An­tilles of a Cu­ba, Ja­maica, Haiti and fi­nal­ly the Ba­hamas.”

Art lovers would even find they could drift away as So­bion oc­ca­sion­al­ly wan­ders off to fur­ther lands such as Mex­i­co, Mo­roc­co, Spain and In­dia.

The ex­hi­bi­tion en­cap­su­lates So­bion’s own re­al­i­ty of liv­ing in a for­eign land while stay­ing mar­ried to his roots and cul­tur­al iden­ti­ty.

This ex­hi­bi­tion eas­i­ly re­veals the “globe” with­in So­bion and im­me­di­ate­ly, one recog­nis­es he is not just from a “dot” on the map of the Caribbean Sea, but rather the prod­uct of the Caribbean’s realm.

The ex­hi­bi­tion will con­clude on Feb­ru­ary 9, 2019.