He also requests as little light as possible, a canvas of darkness for the glow sticks and strobes.
"But when choosing an artist, it has to be love at first sight, say during a gallery visit," she said, adding that she likes to think of Swatch as "a canvas on which the artists can express themselves".
In 2008, the local Art Society and the Queen's Park Oval (the country's premier cricket venue in north Port of Spain) collaborated to use the walls of the Oval as a canvas for some of the country's finest emerging and established artists.
In Los Angeles, a city that served as a canvas for the likes of Rudolf Schindler and Richard Neutra, the work of the modernist architect A. Quincy Jones tends to go overlooked.
Both were avid members of a burgeoning subculture that treated the lowly T-shirt as a canvas for visual flights of fancy.
April 21 2015 June 14 201515 Athol Fugard wrote and directs this beautiful play, in which an elderly black man (Leon Addison Brown) in apartheid-era South Africa, who has been painting rocks to look like flowers on his Afrikaner boss's property for decades, finds himself, in 1981 — at the very end of his life — using the largest rock as a canvas to tell the story of his unimaginably hard life.
And in a dish called skate Jackson Pollock, he uses the fish as a canvas to reproduce the look of a Pollock painting with splashes and slashes of black, orange and green sauces made, respectively, from cuttlefish ink, carrot and olive.
From this baptism by fire, the Art Commission has, through the decades, had to weigh the differences of opinion between two pivotal groups: the artists and reformers who saw the city streets as a canvas for the uplifting power of art, and the special-interest groups and politicians who saw any oversight as interference with efforts to memorialize certain constituencies.
"She didn't like Harry's tattoos," said Paul. "He's got 27!" said Abbi, apparently unaware of the fact her new pin-up has also used his lithe little body as a canvas for the most permanent of inks. Louis has "the rogue" tattooed on his calves, one word on each.
