Title: Mama D’Lo and Missy G Under the Sea
Authors: Deanne Achong
Series: Undercurrents and Flows
Host Artists (series editors): Lois Klassen and Deanne Achong
Designer: Aaniya Asrani
Book Binder: Ruby Lewis
Printer: MET Fine Printers Inc., Copies Plus, and Club Card
Date: 2024
Pages: 28
Language: English, Trinidadian Creole
Envelope Dimensions: 4.25″ (106 mm) x 5.5″ (141 mm) x .13″ (4 mm)
Binding: Double accordion fold, hand bound together with fibers found on the shoreline; presented in a coloured envelope with sticker closure
Edition: 200
ISBN: 978-1-988895-33-8
Copyright : Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 ) License). Content copyrights remain with listed contributors.
Print copies are freely available through mail art exchanges, in person exchanges, and at cost to public institutions or mutual aid organizations. Contact lightfactorypublications@gmail.com for more information.
On long stretches of paper, folded like the currents and waves of the sea, an orphaned cat encounters Mama D’Lo, a mythical hero from Caribbean folklore. This tiny tale links centuries of Atlantic crossings and imagines an underwater world where voyagers lost among the waves find a transformed life breathing in the sea.
… A big wave rolls over
and takes her under.
She meets a mermaid,
who introduce herself
as Mama D’lo.
She work fast and
teach Missy G
how tobreathe
become a mermaid.
This publication would not have been possible without funding and support from BC Arts Council (Individual Arts Award); Canada Council for the Arts (Research Creation, Explore and Create grant); SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at Critical Media Art Studio (cMAS), School of Interactive Art and Technology, SFU.
