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Photo courtesy the artist. Trinidad 'cross-over' artist Eddie Bowen calls this one of his favorite paintings. It's called 'Ghost of Carnival' (2009) and was shown in a select exhibition of work that opened on April 22 at 29 Syndenham Avenue, St Ann's Port of Spain. Bowen lists his inspirations as: "the Great Pyramid at Giza, my dad, Leonardo da Vinci, Durer, Ghiberti, Michaelangelo, Shakespeare, living in Trinidad, the Bhagavad Gita, the study of Yoga since 1993, the Psalms, Egyptology, sci-fi, cricket, sacred/ancient architecture, teaching, questions arising from skeptical, objective, analytical, spiritual and speculative enquiry into mankind’s history and evolution, painting, growing trees (the oxygen machines),'outsider' art, world affairs - the environment, Cydonia, architecture." FIND  out more about Bowen at his website  here . From 'The Rock Machines' by Eddie Bowen (c) 1997

You are not my mother so you hold my hand tighter than you should. The wind blows my Indian feather, And throws red dust into my face. This is supposed to be fun, but when We reach the Savannah stage I am terrified...      -- READ full poem in the Boston Review .