Ray­mond Ram­char­i­tar

My pal, pro­fes­sion­al artist and am­a­teur spe­lunk­er, Steve Ou­ditt, par­tic­i­pat­ed in the Min­istry of Sus­tain­able De­vel­op­ment's lat­est in­stall­ment of pan­els on The Hu­man Imag­i­na­tion at the Cen­tral Bank a few weeks ago. I missed the pan­el, but saw a video of the pre­ced­ing one on Chan­nel 4.

The first in­clud­ed Mun­gal Patasar and Earl Lovelace, and the sec­ond fea­tured Leroy Clarke (re­peat­ing the sto­ry of his own great­ness) and an­i­ma­tor Camille Selvon-Abra­hams, re­peat­ing an oft-heard plea for lo­cal con­tent. Ou­ditt de­liv­ered a pre­sen­ta­tion on de­sign fea­tur­ing his dog, Sir Richard Dog­gkins, which, ap­par­ent­ly, no one "got"–start­ing with the play on words "Dog­gkins" and "Dawkins." (I dis­cussed this with Ou­ditt, who had this im­pres­sion.)

Kind of iron­ic that no one seemed to "get" the most imag­i­na­tive pre­sen­ta­tion of the evening. It might have some­thing to do with yok­ing the an­tin­o­mies of the lead­en in­stru­men­tal­ism (gov­ern­ment) with mer­cu­r­ial ir­ra­tional­i­ty (imag­i­na­tion). Au­thor­i­ty, es­pe­cial­ly or­tho­doxy, is gen­er­al­ly un­com­fort­able around ac­tive imag­i­na­tions, since those are usu­al­ly re­spon­si­ble for propos­ing chang­ing au­thor­i­ties and gov­ern­ments.

http://www.guardian.co.tt/dig­i­tal/new-mem­bers