Artist Desmond Alli feels that Guyanese have become “numb” and “immune” to injustices and therefore are mostly silent when these occur with only a few raising not very vigorous voices.
He said that lethargy has seeped into the world of visual artists in Guyana, who unlike their colleagues in other countries do not use their work to make statements about injustice, only producing pieces which are pleasing to the eye.
Alli, who is a sculptor, painter and Spanish teacher (he teaches privately), told Sunday Stabroek in a recent interview that he cannot sit idly by and not speak either through his art or the written word. For this, he said, he has been labelled an opposition member.
