https://www.kayrodriques.com/projects daily 0.75 2026-10-30 https://www.kayrodriques.com/projects/how-can-the-act-of-making-become-an-act-of-remembrance monthly 0.5 2026-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6ac764b2e034167fa4d5184b/c7479075-4358-4a30-9507-f968a0b1a704/IMG_1387.jpeg PROJECTS - How can the act of making become an act of remembrance? Sketchbook Notes #1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6ac764b2e034167fa4d5184b/a04d278b-cb1b-4c0d-a3af-3776a2b43eb6/IMG_1388.jpeg PROJECTS - How can the act of making become an act of remembrance? Sketchbook Notes #2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6ac764b2e034167fa4d5184b/eae0fe2c-b869-4fb7-bdd9-2a1c64468cf5/IMG_1390.jpeg PROJECTS - How can the act of making become an act of remembrance? Sketchbook Notes #3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6ac764b2e034167fa4d5184b/86c6606a-0558-4421-911e-4ec8ca253af6/IMG_1389.jpeg PROJECTS - How can the act of making become an act of remembrance? Sketchbook Notes #4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6ac764b2e034167fa4d5184b/48419056-3344-4af2-8668-c2af17e0fea2/IMG_1390.jpeg PROJECTS - How can the act of making become an act of remembrance? Sketchbook Notes #5 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6ac764b2e034167fa4d5184b/983df108-513d-4f8a-930b-6e5cf41fd5cb/IMG_1392.jpeg PROJECTS - How can the act of making become an act of remembrance? Sketchbook Notes #6 https://www.kayrodriques.com/projects/from-tropical-light-to-goyas-shadows monthly 0.5 2026-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6ac764b2e034167fa4d5184b/43deb13d-69d5-4d22-8448-3706eccd267f/IMG_7023.jpeg PROJECTS - From Tropical Light to Goya’s Shadows Playing with words that inform my new, extremely limited, palette. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6ac764b2e034167fa4d5184b/bb5f4a41-f169-4294-9655-041bc01145d4/IMG_7022.jpeg PROJECTS - From Tropical Light to Goya’s Shadows Nova Scotia, Sierra Leone and Australia, these are all places that Britain deported formerly enslaved Jamaican rebels to. How can I describe this through tropical colors? Britain and America are really getting rolling now with the deportation process, deporting, deporting, deporting people from both of their countries. It's the same old story and nothing new. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6ac764b2e034167fa4d5184b/ad2f7c7b-bbd0-48c3-84ad-afecd9923f76/Image12271.jpg PROJECTS - From Tropical Light to Goya’s Shadows This painting depicts an imagined Maroon woman left behind after her husband and brother are deported by the British following the Maroon resistance in Jamaica. First sent to Nova Scotia in 1796, they are later transported to Sierra Leone in 1800, leaving her to confront the grief of separation and the uncertainty of their fate. What could it have been like to be dragged out of Africa, enslaved in Jamaica and then deported to Nova Scotia, Australia or Sierra Leone, places you neither knew nor had ties to? https://www.kayrodriques.com/projects/Blog Post Title One-3zaa9-zlxng-7aarl monthly 0.5 2026-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6ac764b2e034167fa4d5184b/5cf17e2f-be65-4098-9e65-e5b8997c1cdf/Image12245.jpg PROJECTS - Influences On New Work(s) - And so, the tones of the painting changed, as did the title. No longer a depiction of a lighthearted, sunny California hike, the composition relies on darker, opaque glazes to achieve the somber tones. These changes mean too, that the title changes from “Breathe It In” (the title of a handmade stencil/print that informs the painting) to its new title, “What We Breathe, Mountain Air.” What We Breathe, Mountain Air, oil on linen, 21 x 30 inches (2026) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6ac764b2e034167fa4d5184b/00aa9f91-2467-4985-a8a7-29e90cbf0bc7/IMG_7009.jpeg PROJECTS - Influences On New Work(s) This is the painting before I added several layers of dark, opaque glaze. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6ac764b2e034167fa4d5184b/53ab0ad5-4838-48e9-86ff-7d4f081b5a84/IMG_7013.jpeg PROJECTS - Influences On New Work(s) Breathe It In (2025), pigments and ink on paper, 5 × 7 inches. This print generated the concept of the figure that lies in the grass in the painting. Some ideas just breathe new ideas! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6ac764b2e034167fa4d5184b/64cf8e36-2549-48a8-8ae8-f1ad7de3a760/IMG_1398.jpeg PROJECTS - Influences On New Work(s) I had originally planned to include this guy in the oil painting above, but as the painting evolved, my ideas took a different direction and he didn't quite fit anymore. I set him aside, but he wasn't quite finished with me. I went on to make a series of linocuts based on his image, and it was through these prints that he eventually found his way into another oil painting, which is currently in progress. It’s interesting how an image can disappear from one work only to resurface somewhere else, transformed along the way. You never quite know what will end up where. https://www.kayrodriques.com/projects/blog-post-title-two-t5my5-k4xmd-c8j8h monthly 0.5 2026-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6ac764b2e034167fa4d5184b/bbf6f859-41a7-4db5-b08d-f800dc120bb4/Rodriques_Kay_01.png PROJECTS - Beyond Morant Bay: The Emergence of Magnitude Abstraction Distraction, 2025, inks and pigments on paper, 22 x 30 inches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6ac764b2e034167fa4d5184b/28fd84f4-47d0-433a-bb5d-f4203c257419/IMG_7071.jpeg PROJECTS - Beyond Morant Bay: The Emergence of Magnitude Florence notes, sketches, and embroidery for an unrealized artist’s book, c. 2024-25. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6ac764b2e034167fa4d5184b/3cc34a09-2a6e-4ec4-b146-6454204d9db8/IMG_7075.jpeg PROJECTS - Beyond Morant Bay: The Emergence of Magnitude An unrealized artist’s book centered on Florence and the exhibitions I visited there. Perhaps one day I will return to it and bring it to life; perhaps it will remain an unrealized idea, another project suspended between notes, fragments and possibility. It certainly belongs within the broader thinking of Magnitude, even if it never becomes a book in its own right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6ac764b2e034167fa4d5184b/4ebac66b-b705-4dd0-9c6e-545d6fbbe1ea/IMG_7076.jpg PROJECTS - Beyond Morant Bay: The Emergence of Magnitude https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6ac764b2e034167fa4d5184b/21ade9e9-7f94-4f98-b25a-24b6c56bd2c1/IMG_7077.jpeg PROJECTS - Beyond Morant Bay: The Emergence of Magnitude https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6ac764b2e034167fa4d5184b/de9cbcc8-bd17-448e-85e4-d88e4a51cbca/IMG_7078.jpeg PROJECTS - Beyond Morant Bay: The Emergence of Magnitude https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6ac764b2e034167fa4d5184b/6112d4fc-aaca-499d-93fc-3bf563db3cf4/IMG_7079.jpeg PROJECTS - Beyond Morant Bay: The Emergence of Magnitude The letters of the remarkable Alessandra Macinghi Stozzi have finally been translated into English. (These letters, about 73 of them, are addressed mostly to her banished sons (Filippo, Lorenzo, and Matteo) in exile. They are a chronicle of family life, business transactions, and Medicean Florentine politics.) The originals are housed in the Archivio di Stato di Firenze. https://www.kayrodriques.com/projects/blog-post-title-three-y3peb-4lwnz-sem2d monthly 0.5 2026-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6ac764b2e034167fa4d5184b/77945fb5-4e93-4a3e-9d60-cd7179e52bdb/IMG_6968.jpeg PROJECTS - Artist’s Books: Projects and Explorations https://www.kayrodriques.com/projects/blog-post-title-four-lr658-tcthp-lppwf monthly 0.5 2026-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6ac764b2e034167fa4d5184b/f906f020-bd23-4aab-bbf1-6591f8cba9a4/IMG_7020.jpg PROJECTS - Over A Decade in the Making Map No.1, hand embroidery, prints, and botanical pigments on cloth, c. 2022, 36 × 58 inches. Above: A wall hanging from Beyond Morant Bay, tracing the routes taken by British soldiers and Maroons through the Jamaican landscape and the paths of destruction left in their wake. Hand embroidery, printed marks, and pigments drawn from botanical sources transform the textile into a layered map, where the physical acts of stitching, printing, and staining evoke the accumulation of history, the scars of colonial violence, and the enduring imprint of these events on the land. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6ac764b2e034167fa4d5184b/7486a99c-b06e-41a4-bea8-8c6eae31a0d5/IMG_6981.jpg PROJECTS - Over A Decade in the Making Morant Bay Rebellion/Massacre (Childhood Homes, II), “They Burned the Courthouse Down,” c. 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6ac764b2e034167fa4d5184b/0cb48c59-9059-4d61-a4e4-ca40a12551a4/IMG_7047.jpeg PROJECTS - Over A Decade in the Making Some notes from my notebook, written when the project was still focused solely on the Morant Bay Rebellion and Massacre. Then I began to travel. Each journey brought new landscapes, histories and encounters into view, unsettling my original assumptions and prompting questions I had not thought to ask. Gradually, the boundaries of the project began to dissolve. What started as an investigation of a specific moment in Jamaica’s colonial history grew into something much larger: an exploration of forced displacement, migration, memory and the interconnected histories of people uprooted, transported and scattered across the world. The more I travelled, the further the project reached beyond Morant Bay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6ac764b2e034167fa4d5184b/2080712a-ed42-4507-be5c-4da4d58cbbdb/IMG_1401.jpeg PROJECTS - Over A Decade in the Making Sketching my route from Milan to Parma and Ferrara, so I don’t lose my way! 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Photo: Robert Malone (c) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6ac764b2e034167fa4d5184b/2653ac3a-9206-4c85-97a1-6a9f66237f15/Image12257.jpg SELECTED WORKS What the Land Gives (2026), oil on linen, 15.75 x 19.50 inches. Photo: Robert Malone (c) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6ac764b2e034167fa4d5184b/cada0e55-a61e-4f0e-9630-106533aa76f9/Image12236.jpg SELECTED WORKS Cow Head Spirit, Jankanoo series (2026), 18.5 x 37.25 inches. Photo: Robert Malone (c) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6ac764b2e034167fa4d5184b/4718441e-0cb8-4a85-900f-8823cb2b33f3/Image12245.jpg SELECTED WORKS What We Breathe, Mountain Air (2026) oil on linen, 21 x 30 inches. Photo: Robert Malone (c) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6ac764b2e034167fa4d5184b/b9b0dc4e-e52e-4ae3-886f-605189eb70f3/Rodriques_Kay_01.JPG SELECTED WORKS Abstraction Distraction (2025), inks and pigments on paper, 22 x 30 inches. Private collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6ac764b2e034167fa4d5184b/5181067b-6c43-4b9a-9d86-77eeec11a704/IMG_7011.jpeg SELECTED WORKS I Used to Dance; I Don’t Anymore (2022), oil on linen, 10 x 10 inches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6ac764b2e034167fa4d5184b/a0b81a74-6756-4b87-9323-eb3a25ed168c/Rodriques_Kay_10.JPG SELECTED WORKS ‘Tis I, Rastafari (2021) mixed media on canvas 12 x 26 inches. Private collection.