Cornerstone Archive

The exhibition Cornerstone at the Hyde Park Art Center is rooted in personal and collective memory—especially my own connection to my home Jamaica. The exhibition explores how land, architecture, the body, and memory intersect, and how they’re shaped by history, displacement, and cultural hybridity. It draws from Jamaica’s ecology, its building traditions, and the layered stories held in land—who owns it, who tends it, and who has been displaced from it. It’s also about longing and nostalgia—what it means to carry a sense of home with you, even as it shifts.

As part of Cornerstone, this archive gathers some of the materials that have shaped the process and thinking behind the work. It includes a reading list, images, and a soundtrack—all of which reflect the ideas and feelings that run through the show: land, memory, material, and identity.

The archive includes:

• Resource List: Books, essays, fiction, and poetry that informed the exhibition’s themes—ranging from postcolonial theory to vernacular architecture and landscape memory.

• Image Gallery: A visual collection of references—from Jamaican terrain to material and architectural details—that served as source material and inspiration.

• Soundtrack: A playlist shaped by personal memory of a particular time in Jamaica—capturing both nostalgia and cultural memory