Living Barbados Magazine November 2014 Edition November 2014 edition | Page 87

tenacious spirit. “I allow myself the broadest spectrum of experimentation
constantly pushing and extending the parameters of my imagination. Any
found object has the potential to be transformed. Imagine a pile of stinking
fish scales found on the beach becomes roses! I see roses, I smell roses, I
make roses”. Guni is often as amazed as anyone else at her own ingenuity.
Another one of her very clever ‘inventions’ is the coconut sheath dressed
in glass so elegant and attractive a fruit bowl or centre piece you wouldn’t
believe it!
A broken mother of pearl button is a silver moon, old mussel shells
become luminescent black lotuses, oyster shells, bottoms of bottles, broken
crockery, old cigar boxes and discarded jewelry. Plus special unique finds
ensconced in the work that often have long stories attached to them. She
has given a whole new meaning to the art of recycling.
“I am intrigued by all found objects, I love to bring back to life that
which was discarded or broken or thought to be useless and recreate it
into something stunnin r