"This is a Caribbean imagining of our future. In it, the climate has been irrecoverably altered by humans, and a nuclear war has poisoned what little was left of the planet. Against this dystopian backdrop, can Caribbean people create a new way of life? Initially flung together for the sake of European economies, our history of world-building on our own terms has been short. Our imaginations must again generate modes of survival. On what basis will we construct our futures? What will unite us? What will our settlements look like?

I have chosen to imagine a flooded, burned, and depoliticized world without borders. These pieces make use of the traces left behind after the planet’s finite resources have been plundered. They ask us to consider, for the remaining species, the project of remapping; of finding our way through stories, through memory, through the wisdom of our ancestors. Caribbean people will be asked to do again what we were once forced to do: reconfigure a culture and a way of life."