Starman was created as part of the ongoing “Neighbourhood” project that started with the fiction exhibition in 2007.  When I was a child I would regularly interrupt my father to ask him what he was doing. He would reply that he was “building a wigwam to wind-up the moon.”

This confounding phrase became the key to Starman’s mission. He was to search for a place to build his own wigwam to wind-up the moon. His quest investigates the role of the “outsider” in a tight-knit community and questions the purpose of structure as monument or a symbol of belonging.

As part of the Black Diaspora Arts Symposium in Barbados in 2009, photographic and video documentation of public projections of Starman’s search were exhibited.

These were installed along with drawings of proposed “wigwams” and collaborative responses to the work and to the character himself by artist Ingrid Persaud.

© 2009 Ewan Atkinson