Creolese Curry is an homage to diasporic connectivity through poor images and hyperreal extensions of geographies from the Caribbean to the States. The intention behind this video was to hear more about my mother’s childhood in Guyana and her experience growing up on the farm. The story turned into how my mother uses food to physically and mentally heal herself while recognizing her tense relationship with food.

In 2020, my mom had two strokes, requiring her to wear light-sensitive glasses and be even more cautious about her health. My mother and I have dreamt of creating a Guyanese American cookbook for years, and this recent scare reminded us that life doesn’t wait for opportunities as sweet as these to occur. The video occasionally glitches and sits out of sync, reflecting our imperfect but functioning relationships centered around food, medicine, and stories.

As a queer Boviander Guyanese American practicing placemaking from the Caribbean to the Gulf and now the Northwest, I grapple with how my mother and I can often connect through paralleling laughter and disconnect through distance over ideas of life. Invoking Legacy Rusell’s Glitch Feminism, my video also celebrates Hito Stereyl’s poor image, Sky Hopinka’s vignettes of home, and Duval Timothy’s integrative form of sharing diasporic knowing.