story 18 Jul 2024

The Shadow that Life Becomes

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An old Jamaican man contemplates his life in Britain. A short story by Ellis Walker. This forms part of an artist commission for the DWYS Biennial 2024.

Story: Ellis has written a short story about an old Jamaican man as he contemplates his life and perhaps death, wondering what any of it was for. A bus driver in perpetual motion. He navigates his choices and the way the world around him views his existence.

The recovery: What is the Jamaican British experience of a generation reduced to a scandal driven news cycle? Who were this generation of pioneers, almost terra forming the landscape around them? Ellis’s short story gets granular, we get to walk in his memories, arrival, relationships, work and take a look at the scar tissue of a generation.

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