{"id":148345,"date":"2022-03-21T08:56:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T12:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=148345"},"modified":"2022-03-21T09:21:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T13:21:00","slug":"visual-arts-women-carry-the-weight-of-the-world-in-images-from-life-on-caribbean-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/visual-arts-women-carry-the-weight-of-the-world-in-images-from-life-on-caribbean-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual arts: ‘Women Carry the Weight of the World’ in images from life on Caribbean island"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(DISPATCH) In 2020, Eliana Calle-Saari, an artist and printmaker from Columbus, went to visit her daughter, who was in medical school on the\u00a0island of Antigua in the Lesser Antilles.<\/a><\/p>

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Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic just getting underway, Antigua went into lockdown and Calle-Saari found herself a captive for several months on the Caribbean island.<\/p>\n

Making use of the time and location, she began to create works that reflected the lives of the people she was living around.<\/p>

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\u201cEverything had stopped,\u201d Calle-Saari said. \u201cTourists returned home; resorts, banks, churches, schools, beaches closed, and strict curfews and mask mandates were imposed.\u201d<\/p>

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But, she said, the women didn\u2019t stop.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the men were sitting in the shade, the women were lugging laundry, cooking, cleaning, taking care of the kids \u2026 This exhibit is a love letter to Antigua and to the women there.\u201d<\/p>

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