


Parted, the Antilles Current…Meridian: 81 degrees West
Inspired by a line of Peter Matthiessen’s novel Far Tortuga, Ebanks uses his formal training with glasswork to explore his personal and cultural history, focusing on his family’s maritime heritage. He brings together a series of images — a turtle skull, map references, a fish skeleton, and wings of a Cayman Brac Tropic bird — in a fragmented, dreamlike manner to comment on the cycles of life and dependency. Antilles… featured in the artist’s solo exhibition Blue Meridian at NGCI in 2011, which was the culmination of two year’s work that translated the history and environment of his native home, Grand Cayman, into glass and porcelain.